William Perehudoff

Perehudoff was born in Langham, Saskatchewan in 1919.[1] His formal education ended at grade four, 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 Artists' Workshops (various years, 1957 to 1990), where he became acquainted with teachers Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski.[2][3] It was at one of these workshops in 1962 that he met New York art critic Clement Greenberg, who was set him on his path toward Post-painterly Abstraction, which had an enormous impact upon his art and career.

Perehudoff's work is represented in numerous public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, the Canada Council Art Bank, teh Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Montreal Museum of Fine Art,among others.

In 1994, he was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. In 1999, he was inducted as member to the Order of Canada. Due to failing health, Perehudoff gave up painting in 2001.

In November 2009, several of Perehudoff's murals were successfully removed from the executive suite in the former Intercontinental Packers plant. Perehudoff painted them in 1950, and the abstract silhouettes are considered the last remaining examples of their kind from the period. Appraised at $250,000, the murals had been at risk as the plant was slated for demolition. Ian Hodkinson, a retired art conservator, was brought in and used a special method to remove the acrylic paint from the plaster intact.[4] The murals will remain in storage until the proposed Art Gallery of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon is built. They will be displayed in a special antechamber, built to the same dimensions as the boardroom in which they first existed.[5]

Perehudoff died on February 26, 2013 at age 94.[6

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