Irene Rice Pereira (1902 – 1971)
Abstraction
8.75 x 5.5 inches
watercolor and gouache on paper
signed lower left

Irene Rice Periera
Periera was an American abstract artist, poet, and philosopher who played a significant role in the development of modernism in America. She is known for her work in the Geometric abstraction, Abstract expressionist, and lyrical abstraction genres and her use of the principles of the Bauhaus school. She helped found the Federal Art Project design laboratory and painted for more than 30 years on 15th Street in New York City. There was a major retrospective of her work in 1953 at the Whitney Museum when it was still located on Eighth Street.