William perehudoff national gallery of victoria
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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
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William Perehudoff (1918-2013)
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William Perehudoff
Berry Campbell Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by the prestigious Canadian Color Field artist, William Perehudoff (1918-2013). William Perehudoff: Architect of Color is a survey spanning the artist’s career featuring an early masterpiece, Allegro (AC-67-002), from 1967. Timothy Long, head curator of Saskatchewan’s Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, recalled Perehudoff as, “one of the greatest colorists Canada has produced,”1 Perehudoff was a friend of and is regarded as the heir to Jack Bush, as Canada’s most important Color Field painter. The exhibition will open with a reception on Thursday, April 25, 2019 from 6 to 8 pm and continues through May 24, 2019.
Widely considered to be a Canadian Color Field tour de force, William Perehudoff was born in 1918 in Langham, Saskatchewan, a small town located about twenty miles northwest of Saskatoon. He and his three siblings, were raised in a Doukhobor community , assisting with the daily tasks on their parents’ farm. The land remained an integral part of Perehudoff's life as he maintained a focused and balanced ethos in both farming and painting throughout his seven decade long artistic career.
In the 1940s, with scant formal training, he began to show his work in local group exhibitions at