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William Perehudoff (1918-2013)
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William Perehudoff was born near Saskatoon in 1918. Active from the late 1940s to 2003, he is considered to be one of Canada’s major abstract painters. Perehudoff studied with the French artist Jean Charlot at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center from 1948-1949, and with the French Purist Amedee Ozenfant at the Ozenfant School of Fine Arts in New York from 1949-1950. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he was an active participant in the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops, under workshop leaders Will Barnet (1957), Herman Cherry (1961), Clement Greenberg (1962), Kenneth Noland (1963), and Donald Judd (1968). In 1988 he was a workshop leader, himself. His work has been widely exhibited at commercial galleries in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, as well as museum exhibitions throughout Canada, including Remai Modern, Saskatoon; the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; the National Gallery, Ottawa; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; the Edmonton Art Gallery; The Art Gallery of Windsor; the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; and the Glenbow Art Gallery, Calgary. His work is held in private and public collections in Canada, the US and Europe. In 2011, The Mendel Art
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William Perehudoff
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William Perehudoff
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1919 – 2013
Associated with the Colour Field movement, William Perehudoff and his works hold an important place in contemporary Canadian art history. Central to Perehudoff's work is the emphasis on form, process, and colour rather than brushstrokes or figurative depictions.
Perehudoff was born in 1919 just west of Saskatoon. He left high school after grade 11 to take up farming, but soon became interested in painting, mostly in watercolour. In the 1940s his work was discovered and encouraged by Eva Mendel, a Berlin-trained painter and daughter of Fred Mendel, who would go on to be the founder of the Saskatoon's Mendel Art Gallery.
Perehudoff found inspiration from the vast openness of the prairies, where he would continue to establish himself for most of his career. He studied at the Colorado Springs Art Center from 1948-49, later leaving for New York to study with French Cubist Amédée Ozenfant who would influence Perehudoff and instill the importance of having a significant form and avoiding non-essential elements in his work. Even greater still was the impact of the Emma Lake Artist's Workshops, which enabled Perehudoff to explore new techniques and ways of thinking about his art. For Perehudoff, one of