William Perehudoff
| William Perehudoff | |
|---|---|
| Born |
William Perehudoff April 21, 1918 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
| Died | February 26, 2013 (aged 94) Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Amédée Ozenfant, Emma Lake Artist's Workshops |
| Known for | Painting, muralist |
| Movement | Colour Field |
| Awards | Order of Canada, Saskatchewan Order of Merit, Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal |
| Patron(s) | Fred Mendel |
William Perehudoff CM SOM (April 21, 1918 – February 26, 2013) was a Canadian artist most closely associated with colour field painting. He was married to the landscape painter Dorothy Knowles.
Perehudoff was born in St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on April 21, 1918, and was raised on a farm in the Doukhobor community of Bogdanovka, between the towns of Langham and Borden, Saskatchewan. His formal education ended at grade eleven, but he pursued art studies with French artist Jean Chariot at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado (1948–49), with Amedee Ozenfant at the Ozenfant School of Fine Arts, New York, New York (1949–50) and through the Emma Lake Artist's Workshops (various years, 1957 to 1990), where he became acquainted with teachers Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski. It was at one of these workshops in 1962 that he met New York art critic Clement Greenberg, who introduced him to Post-painterly Abstraction, which had an enormous impact upon his art and career.
Perehudoff's work has been represented in numerous public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Art.
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