Composition
Alma Kroeger Fund
Catalogue
- Year
- 1940
- Dimensions
- Image: 46.7 x 30.5 cm (18 3/8 x 12 in.); Framed: 60 x 44 x 4.1 cm (23 5/8 x 17 5/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Artist
- Irene Rice Pereira
Artist
Painting
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.
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Quadrangles in Two Planes
1945 · Oil on glass and board
White Lines
1942 · Oil on vellum with marble dust, sand and other materials
Shadows with Painting
1940 · Oil on glass, over gouache and pencil and ink on cardboard with frame
Exploration with a Pencil
1940 · Pencil, gouache, and metallic paint on paper
Red and White Rectangles
1936 · Gouache, pencil, and ink on gray board
Record
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- Irene Rice Pereira
- Year
- 1940
- Dimensions
- Image: 46.7 x 30.5 cm (18 3/8 x 12 in.); Framed: 60 x 44 x 4.1 cm (23 5/8 x 17 5/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1940-156006
Source
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Source
- cleveland
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified