Dark and Stormy

Let's take a walk on the wild side with this great painting by Irene Rice Pereira. Titled "Into the Dark Night I Go," it features an abstract female form against a dark and fluid background. She fills almost the entire surface of the work with her strong, lanky, and curvaceous body. This is another highlight work from the Pantages Portfolio, and truly demonstrates the remarkable scope and range of this collection.

Irene Rice Pereira (1902 –1971) was an American born artist known for right angle geometric and modern figure painting. She began her formal art training in 1927 through night classes at the Art Students League in New York City. She continued her studies in Europe, starting in 1931. After returning to the US and a few years more at the Art Students League, she helped to start the the Design Laboratory, a cooperative school of industrial design established under the auspices of the WPA. There she taught painting, composition, and design synthesis. The Design Laboratory would later evolve into The Laboratory School of Industrial Design. Her work caught the eye of Peggy Guggenheim has been shown, or is part of the permanent collections at the ACA Galleries, The Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and many others.