Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Pereira, I. Rice (Irene Rice), 1902-1971
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content: Irene Rice Pereira papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Folder (Box 1)
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content: 4 Microfilm reels
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content: 1934-1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pereiric, Series 2
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content: Archival materials
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content: Microfilm reels
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content: Drafts of letters are from Pereira to Juliet Gordon and to Mr. Weideman, presumably Pereira's lawyer. In a letter to Gordon, Pereia protests the denigration of women by -"a whole battalion of these American super artists," and condemns the Museum of Modern Art for devotedly supporting their art. She writes, "Only when a society is expiring do such aberrations and betrayal of the female become the cultural mode." The letter to Weidman concerns her living situation in 1970. 

The bulk of Pereira's correspondence is with other artists, friends and family, galleries, institutions, museums, and writers. Correspondents include Mary Bromage, Sylvia Carewe, Carnegie Institute, Betty Chamberlain, Philip Evergood, The Ford Foundation, Emily Genauer Gash, Edith Herbert, Barbara Holland, Institute of Contemporary Art, Rowena Javitz, Berenece Kazounoff, Djelloul Marbrook, Cindy Nemser, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Vera Spencer, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Oscar Williams.

Additional correspondence concerns Pereira's legal concerns with regard to an eviction; and a lawsuit against her landlord due to living conditions and subsequent health issues.