Irene Rice Pereira
Black Control
1942
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Irene Rice Pereira
Black Control
1942
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 49 5/8 x 46 3/16 x 1 3/4 in. (126 x 117.3 x 4.4 cm) Unframed: 40 x 36 in. (101.6 x 91.4 cm)
Credit Line
Frederic W. Cone Fund
Object Number
1951.38
Irene Rice Pereira stamped, combed, and splattered paint onto this canvas and formed the boldest black lines with paper tape. The artist’s quest to capture “the reality of light and space” led her to experiment with a range of techniques and materials in her own paintings. In 1935, Pereira helped found the Design Laboratory in New York, a school of industrial design similar in approach to the influential Bauhaus school (1919–1933) in Germany. She established correspondence with scientists and manufacturers of glass, paint, plastic, and other materials. Pereira developed her own space-time theories on human perception in science and art while recovering from a mastectomy in 1943.
The Memphis Academy of Arts, Memphis, TN (prior to 1951)
"Art of This Century," NYC, Irene Rice Pereira, 4-22 Jan. 1944, no. 8
San Francisco Museum of Art, "I. Rice Pereire," 1947
Galerie Georges Giroux, Burxelles, "Exposition D'Art Americain Contmporaine," March - April, 1948
ACA Gallery, NYC, no date; dealer's label?
Museum of MOdern Art / 46.1371 ACA Galleries (may be exhibition label)
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, New Accessions U.S.A., Summer 1952
Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, "Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Loren MacIver and I. Rice Pereira," January 8 - March 12, 1953, cat. no. 15
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Women Artists," April 18 - June 18, 1972
Virginia Anderson, Baltimore Museum of Art, "By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists," October 6, 2019 — July 5, 2020
"Art of This Century," NYC, Irene Rice Pereira, 4-22 Jan. 1944, no. 8
San Francisco Museum of Art, "I. Rice Pereire," 1947
Galerie Georges Giroux, Burxelles, "Exposition D'Art Americain Contmporaine," March - April, 1948
ACA Gallery, NYC, no date; dealer's label?
Museum of MOdern Art / 46.1371 ACA Galleries (may be exhibition label)
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, New Accessions U.S.A., Summer 1952
Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, "Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Loren MacIver and I. Rice Pereira," January 8 - March 12, 1953, cat. no. 15
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Women Artists," April 18 - June 18, 1972
Virginia Anderson, Baltimore Museum of Art, "By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists," October 6, 2019 — July 5, 2020
BMA News, Jan. 1952, p.5, ill.
Robert M. Coates, "The Art Galleries," The New Yorker, Jan 17, 1953 p 53
A Picture Book, BMA, 1955, ill. p. 82
Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, "Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Loren MacIver and I. Rice Pereira," January 8 - March 12, 1953, cat. no. 15
On View at the BMA
