Irene Pereira was born in 1902 in Chelsea, Massachusetts and grew up in Great Barrington. She was strongly influenced by her mother who was an amateur artist. Irene began art lessons at the age of... Read full biography
Irene Pereira was born in 1902 in Chelsea, Massachusetts and grew up in Great Barrington. She was strongly influenced by her mother who was an amateur artist. Irene began art lessons at the age of fifteen; she took a secretarial job because her father had died. She took art classes at the Art... Read full biography
Irene Pereira was born in 1902 in Chelsea, Massachusetts and grew up in Great Barrington. She was strongly influenced by her mother who was an amateur artist. Irene began art lessons at the age of fifteen; she took a secretarial job because her father had died. She took art classes at the Art Students League in New York City. At the age of twenty-one she married the first of three husbands, Humberto Pereira, whose name she kept. She traveled extensively in Europe and North Africa and was much... Read full biography
Irene Pereira was born in 1902 in Chelsea, Massachusetts and grew up in Great Barrington. She was strongly influenced by her mother who was an amateur artist. Irene began art lessons at the age of fifteen; she took a secretarial job because her father had died. She took art classes at the Art Students League in New York City. At the age of twenty-one she married the first of three husbands, Humberto Pereira, whose name she kept. She traveled extensively in Europe and North Africa and was much inspired by the expansive vistas of the Sahara Desert. Returning to New York, she began incorporating these visions into her work, increasingly experimental in her styles and methods. At first she painted on canvas, then she devised a means of... Read full biography
Irene Pereira was born in 1902 in Chelsea, Massachusetts and grew up in Great Barrington. She was strongly influenced by her mother who was an amateur artist. Irene began art lessons at the age of fifteen; she took a secretarial job because her father had died. She took art classes at the Art Students League in New York City. At the age of twenty-one she married the first of three husbands, Humberto Pereira, whose name she kept. She traveled extensively in Europe and North Africa and was much inspired by the expansive vistas of the Sahara Desert. Returning to New York, she began incorporating these visions into her work, increasingly experimental in her styles and methods. At first she painted on canvas, then she devised a means of actually incorporating light into her works by painting on layers of glass and mounting the layers together. In 1942 she married George Brown,... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (97)
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists
2007
Morgan, Ann Lee
0 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
Defining the Edge: Early American Abstraction (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
56 pages (color)
Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Addison Gallery
512 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Community of Creativity A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Storr, Robert/Tom Wolf
103 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists
1994
Bailey, Brooke
207 pages
Irene Rice Pereira's Early Work Embarking on an Eastward Journey (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Bearor, Karen A
64 pages (color)
Provincetown Abstract Painting 1915-1950 From The Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Provincetwon Art Association and Museum
48 pages (color)
Irene Rice Pereira Her Paintings and Philosophy
1993
Bearor, Karen A
324 pages
Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
1993
Kostelanetz, Richard
246 pages
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
Women, Art, and Society
1990
Chadwick, Whitney
384 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
Advancing American Art Painting, Politics and Cultural Confrontation (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Littleton, Taylor/M Sykes
159 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Women Artists An Illustrated History
1987
Heller, Nancy
224 pages (color)
National Mus of Women in the Arts
1987
National Museum of Women
253 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Rose Art Museum Selected 20th Century Paintings
1986
Rose Art Museum
147 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Advancing American Art Politics and Aesthetics/State Dept Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Ausfeld, M L/V M Mecklenburg
108 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983
Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds
273 pages (color)
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Lane, John R and Susan Larsen
256 pages (color)
American Works on Paper 100 Years of American Art History (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Smith Kramer Art Connections
113 pages (color)
The Americans/The Collage (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Contemporary Arts Museum
143 pages (color)
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present