Anne Estelle RICE
Born in Conshohocken, near Philadelphia, USA, the artist studied at Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. In Paris, she took a studio and was elected Societaire of the Salon d'Automne. She had a solo show at the Baillie Gallery, London (1910), and exhibited there regularly thereafter. In 1911 her work was part of a show by the Women's International Art Club at the Grafton Galleries, causing Huntley Carter to remark in the pages of The New Age: "The fierceness of this canvas haunts one. It is impossible to forget it" (Vol. 8, p. 474).
In 1911-13 she was associated with the production of John Middleton Murray and Michael Sadler's magazine Rhythm, of which John Duncan Fergusson was the art editor. She was associated with Fergusson himself from 1904-1914, and he painted a portrait of her. She married Oscar Raymond Drey, the art and theatre critic and brother to St Ives artist Agnes E DREY, and was friendly with Murray's wife, Katherine Mansfield. Her portrait of Mansfield, which was painted in Looe, Cornwall, is in the collection of The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Rice and Mansfield stayed together in St Ives in 1918.
media
Painter of landscape, coastal scenes, portraits and figure subjects
works and access
Likenesses of the artist: Portrait of Rice by JD Fergusson
Works include: portrait of Katherine Mansfield; Paris Street Nude; Boats Beached, Boats Tied
exhibitions
Paris; GOU; LS; M; Baillie Gallery, London 1910 (Solo show); Grafton Galleries 1911 (part of a show by the Women's International Art Club)
memberships
misc further info
references
Gaze (1997) Dictionary of Women Artists
Hardie (2009) Artists/Newlyn & West Cornwall p342
The Modernist Journals Project http://www.modjourn.brown.edu;
Tovey (2003) Creating a Splash;