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Pereira, Irene Rice. The Crystal of the Rose. Typescript of Irene Rice Pereira’s only published collection of poems. New York, 1959. Containing items dated between 1950 and 1959.
Submitted for adoption by Gabrielle Dean, PhD
Best known as a visual artist, I. Rice Pereira (1902-71) was an early American proponent of abstraction as it developed in Europe. Although she was never at the center of any of the American avant-garde movements of the 20th century, Pereira was quite influential and had a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1953 that traveled around the country. In the 1950s and 1960s, Pereira published several books expounding her philosophy, many at her own expense.
Written throughout the 1950s, usually individually dated here in the typescript, with the preface dated May 29, 1959, this collection of poems was published in 1959 as The Crystal of the Rose by the Nordness Gallery, in an addition of 300 copies (99 with an original watercolor). It was dedicated to Pereira’s sister who had died in 1941.
