PEREIRA, I.(Irene) Rice. Receding Red 1946. Oil on canvas. 49.5 x 39.5 inches image, 59 x 49 inches in frame. Provenance: From the Artist. I. Rice Pereira considered this one of her most important paintings. The mate to this painting is in the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum.

Irene Rice Pereira is best known for her ethereal approach to American Abstraction through the use of mixed media. Pereira studied at the Art Students League in New York at night while she supported herself with secretarial work. Once a full-time artist, Pereira became increasingly experimental in her styles and methods. In 1939 she created her first painting on glass in the Works Progress Administration's Design Laboratory.

One Woman Exhibitions: 1946 Museum of Modern Art New York City
Retrospective: 1953 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
1956 Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C

Permanent Collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Guggenheim Musuem, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C
Hirschorn Museum, Washington D.C
Phillips Collection, Washington D.C
Baltimore Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Art Insitute of Chicago, Illinois
Boston Musuem of Arts, MA
Cincinnatti Art Museum, Ohio
Dallas Musuem of Arts, TX