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Artist(s): Irene Rice Pereira (Chelsea, MA, Aug 5, 1902 - Jan 11, 1971, Marbella, Spain)
Title: Light is Gold
Date: 1951
Dimensions: 30 1/8 in. x 23 1/4 in. (76.52 cm x 59.06 cm)
Medium: Glass, acrylic, lacquer, casein, and gold leaf
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Museum purchase, 1952.16

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Themes: MLC Portfolio: Visualizing Poetry
Exhibitions: Currents/Crosscurrents
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Visualizing Music

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Loren MacIver and I. Rice Pereira, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1/7/1953 - 7/12/1953
What Do You Paint, Madam?, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/18/1956 - 6/11/1956
Scope in Collecting [25th Anniversary Exhibition], Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/19/1956 - 12/24/1956
Translucent Objects Selected from the Addison Gallery Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/13/1959 - 5/18/1959
Survey of the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/14/1961 - 11/27/1961
Born in Boston, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 2/18/1979 - 4/22/1979
American Abstraction at the Addison, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/18/1991 - 7/31/1991
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/29/1993 - 1/9/1993
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/13/1996 - 7/31/1996
Form and Structure: Twentieth Century Work from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 12/28/1998 - 4/25/1999
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/22/2000 - 3/26/2000
Defying Distinction: Works from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/12/2002 - 4/14/2002
Tracing the Sublime, Addison Gallery of American Art, 12/16/2003 - 3/21/2004
Toward Abstraction, Addison Gallery of American Art, 12/23/2005 - 3/26/2006
Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s, American Federation of Arts, 9/9/2006 - 9/7/2009
Inside, Outside, Upstairs, Downstairs: The Addison Anew, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/7/2010 - 3/27/2011
Open Windows: Keltie Ferris, Jackie Saccoccio, Billy Sullivan, and Alexi Worth, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/14/2012 - 4/8/2012
Lines of Action: Selections from the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/28/2012 - 7/31/2012
Infinite Connections [Phillips Academy Art 300], Addison Gallery of American Art, 6/4/2013 - 7/31/2013
[Permanent Collection 201-5], Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/2014 - 7/31/2014
Heaven and Earth, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/7/2015 - 4/5/2015
Searching for the Real, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/30/2015 - 7/31/2015
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/12/2015 - 3/13/2016
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2016 - 3/19/2017
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2017 - 7/31/2018
Currents/Crosscurrents: American Art, 1850–1950, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/2020 - 3/7/2021

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