Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): I. Rice Pereira / 44
the artist (1944; sold to MMA)
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "1944 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," November 14–December 12, 1944, no. 112.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Fourteen Americans," September 10–December 8, 1946, no. 87.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Vassar College. "Fourteen Americans," January 5–26, 1947, no. 87.
Palm Beach, Fla. Society of the Four Arts. "Fourteen Americans," February 7–March 7, 1947, no. 87.
Cincinnati Modern Art School. "Fourteen Americans," March 20–April 17, 1947, no. 87.
San Francisco Museum of Art. "Fourteen Americans," May 1–June 1, 1947, no. 87.
Baton Rouge. Louisiana State University Museum of Art. "Fourteen Americans," June 15–30, 1947, no. 87.
Venice. Biennale. "XXIV Biennale di Venezia," May 29–September 30, 1948, U.S. Pavilion no. 52.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. "Milestones of American Painting in Our Century," January 20–March 1, 1949, no. 36.
Art Association of Montreal. "Milestones of American Painting in Our Century," March 15–April 15, 1949, no. 36.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. "Milestones of American Painting in Our Century," May 5–June 25, 1949, no. 36.
San Francisco. M. H. de Young Memorial Museum. "Milestones of American Painting in Our Century," July 10–August 25, 1949, no. 36.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Milestones of American Painting in Our Century," September 7–October 16, 1949, no. 36.
Cleveland Museum of Art. "Milestones of American Painting in Our Century," November 4–December 11, 1949, no. 36.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 10).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Loren MacIver, I. Rice Pereira," January 8–March 1, 1953, no. 19.
Kent, Conn. Kent School. "American Painting, 1906–1956," September 12–November 29, 1955, no catalogue.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, 1927-1944," June 28–September 9, 1984, no. 112.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Art: The Whitney." New York Times (November 19, 1944), p. X6.
Elizabeth McCausland. "Whitney Museum Show of American Painting." Springfield Sunday Union and Republican (Springfield, Mass.) (November 19, 1944), p. 4C.
"Museums Purchase American Paintings." New York Times (February 9, 1945), p. 20.
"Whitney Purchases." Art News 44 (February 15, 1945), p. 9.
Elizabeth McCausland. "I. Rice Pereira." Magazine of Art 39 (December 1946), ill. p. 374.
"The Americans at Venice." Art News 47 (September 1948), p. 25.
Aline B. Louchheim. "Institute Offers Proof of Pudding: But Long Awaited Show Leaves Manifesto Unclarified." New York Times (January 16, 1949), p. X9.
Frederick S. Wight. Milestones of American Painting in Our Century. Exh. cat., Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. New York, 1949, pp. 31, 104, no. 36, ill. p. 105.
Alexander Fried. "Restless Experiment in De Young Exhibit." San Francisco Examiner (July 24, 1949), p. 141.
Paul B. Metzler. "American Painting Exhibition Lures Crowds to Museum." Cleveland Plain Dealer (November 6, 1949), p. 19D.
Emily Genauer. "Art and Artists: Metropolitan Museum, Like Whitman, Sings of America in Major Exhibition." New York Herald Tribune (June 18, 1950), p. D5.
Doris Brian. "The Metropolitan's American Policy—A Long View, No Blind Flying." Art Digest 24 (July 1, 1950), p. 9.
"Panorama of American 20th Century Art Exhibited." Santa Barbara News-Press (June 18, 1950), p. C-5.
Robert M. Coates. "The Art Galleries: The Ladies." New Yorker 28 (January 17, 1953), p. 53.
James Fitzsimmons. "Two Women in a Double Retrospective at the Whitney." Art Digest 27 (January 15, 1953), p. 24, ill. p. 6, calls it "Green Depths" in the text and "Green Depth" in the caption.
Daniel M. Mendelowitz. A History of American Art. 2nd ed. [1st ed., 1960]. New York, 1970, p. 435, fig. 588.
Robert Henkes. Eight American Women Painters. New York, 1977, ill. no. 28 (between pp. 24 and 26).
David Carrier. "American Apprentices: Thirties Abstraction." Art in America 72 (February 1984), ill. p. 114 (color).
William R. Hegeman. "The Contrary Tradition of Abstraction." Art News 83 (September 1984), p. 81, ill. (color).
Ann Eden Gibson. Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics. New Haven, 1997, p. 84, fig. 79 (color).
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