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21 Etchings and Poems
1960 · etching and aquatint
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Irene Rice Pereira
American, 1902⚠
WA-00028872
PaintingColor Field
Representation
None documented
15
Institutional Exhibitions
10
Works in Collection
18
Assets Indexed
3
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Authority Records (3)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Gifts of Drawing
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
No image
XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
No image
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
No image
Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1950–1951
No image
Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949–1950
No image
Modern Art in Your Life
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
No image
American Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948–1949
No image
Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1947
No image
Fourteen Americans
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1946
No image
The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1945–1946
No image
Painting, Sculpture, Prints
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1944
No image
Modern Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1944
Field Verification (3 fields)
2 cross-verified · 1 single-source
- BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
- NationalityArtsy· 85%✓
- Birth yearArtsy· 85%
Source Registry (1)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Irene Rice Pereira was an American painter and printmaker whose abstractions combined geometric precision with luminous color fields, often incorporating translucent layers and linear structures inspired by light refraction and spatial illusion. Working primarily in oils and gouache from the 1930s onward, she developed a vocabulary of intersecting planes and soft gradations that distinguished her from contemporaries in the American abstract movement. Her investigations into the relationship between geometry, optics, and spiritual experience resulted in compositions that oscillate between mathematical rigor and atmospheric dissolve.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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Artworks (10)
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Artwork sources (4)
10 published of 15 catalogued · 11 with image
- MoMA5 publishedof 10 catalogued10 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art3 published
- Art Institute Chicago1 published1 img
- The Met1 published
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 3)
3 entries · 1 sources
- 1940 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1960 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1960 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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6Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
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