William Perehudoff: Biography
William Perehudoff 1918-2013
Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Married artist Dorothy Knowles in Paris in 1951
Art Education
1948-49
1950-51
1951-52
1968
Studied art and mural painting with French artist Jean Charlot at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado
Studied with the French Purist Amedee Ozenfant at the Ozenfant School of Fine Arts, New York, New York
Museum studies in England, France, and Italy
Attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Art Education
1957
1961
1962
1963
1968
1988
Emma Lake Artists Workshop, Saskatchewan
Will Barnet
Herman Cherry
Clement Greenberg
Kenneth Noland
Donald Judd
William Perehudoff, Workshop leader
Triangle Artists Workshop, Pine Plains, New York, 1987
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1948
1950
1961
1965
1970
1972-73
1974
1976
1977
1977-78
1978
1979
1980
1981-83
1988
1993
2002
2004
2006
2007
2008
2010
2010-12
2011
2012
2013
Saskatoon Arts Centre, Saskatoon, SK
Saskatoon Arts Centre, Saskatoon, SK
Saskatoon Arts Centre, Saskatoon, SK
Regina Public Library, Regina, SK
The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina SK, catalogue by Terry Fenton
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, New York
Theo Waddington Galleries, Montreal, PQ
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, New York
Waddington-Tooth Gallery, London, England
Theo Waddington Galleries, Montreal, PQ
Glenbow Alberta Institute, Calgary, AB, catalogue by Robert Christie
Meredith Long Contemporary Gallery, New York, New York
University of Alberta Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Banff Fine Art Centre Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Theo Waddington Gallery, London, England
Theo Waddington Galleries, Montreal, PQ
Meredith Long Contemporary Gallery, New York, New York
Waddington Gallery, Toronto, ON
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, national touring exhibition, catalogue by Karen Wilkin
Eva Cohon gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto, ON
The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, William Perehudoff,Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB, 1994, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB, 1994
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, William Perehudoff, Now and Then, curated by Gilles Hebert
Winchester Galleries, Victoria, BC
Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK, William Perehudoff –Important Works from the 90’s,May 13 to June 1, 2006
Canada House, London, England, William Perehudoff, Colour Chording Post Painterly Abstraction of the Canadian Prairies, catalogue written by Robert Christie, Thursday, Oct. 5
Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Muse for Major Paintings ,February 15 to March 3
Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, ON, May 10 to 20
Poussin Gallery, London, England, February 14 to March 8, catalogue
Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB, Fifty Years of Abstraction, April 24 to June 12
The Optismism of Colour:William Perehudoff, A Retrospective curated by Karen Wilkin and Roald Nasgaard
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, July 7 to Sept.9, 2012, Oshawa, ON
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON Jan.12 to May 31,
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB, July 1 to Sept. 18; 2011
Kamloops Art Gallery, BC, March 26 to May 28, 2011
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK Oct.1 to Jan. 9, 2010, 2011
Nikola Rukaj Gallery & Art Toronto, Toronto, ON, Oct. 2011
Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Oct. 27
Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB, April 6
Han Art Gallery, Montreal, PQ, May 23 to June 23, catalogue
William Perehudoff, The Mural Room, College Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, May 31
Selected Group Exhibitions
1945
1952
1962
1963
1964
1965
1967
1968
1968-69
1975-76
1976
1977
1978
1978-79
1980
1981
1987
1989
2001
2005
2008
2010
2011
2012
The Saskatoon Art Association, Saskatoon, SK, Spring Show
The Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Artists of Saskatchewan
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Winnipeg Bienniel
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, PQ, Montreal Spring Show
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, PQ, Montreal Spring Show
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, PQ, Montreal Spring Show
The Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Saskatchewan Artists, catalogue by John Climer
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, PQ, Survey 68
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, 7th Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting, catalogue by William C. Seitz
The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canadian Artists, catalogue introduction by Dennis Young
The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, PQ, 88th annual Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts
The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, 11th Winnipeg Show
The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB, 89th Annual Exhibition, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
National circulating exhibition, The Canadian Canvas, catalogue by Dorris Shadbolt, Karen Wilkin, Alvin Balking, Ferdinand St. Martin, and Allan Mackay
National Gallery of Canada touring exhibition, Emma Lake and After, catalogue by Terry Fenton
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 14 Canadians, A Critic’s Choice, catalogue by Andrew Hudson
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Modern Painting in Canada, catalogue by Terry Fenton and Karen Wilkin
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, 7 Prairie Painters, touring exhibition, Extension Services, catalogue introduction by Raymond Oullet
The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB, Aspects of Canadian Painting in the Seventies, curated by Jeff Spalding
The Robert McLauglin Gallery, Oshawa, ON, The Heritage of Jack Bush, A Tribute
Triangle Artists Workshop Exhibition, Pine Plains, New York, New York
The Mendel Art Gallery, The Flat Side of a Landscape, The Emma lake Artist’s Workshops, curated by John O’Brian
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, Clement Greenburg, a Critic’s Choice
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art,1950-2005, catalogue produced
London Art Fair, London, England, represented by Poussin Gallery, Jan.15 to 20
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Abstract Painting in Canada, Jan. 17 to March 4
Poussin Gallery, London, England, Poussin Review, Form and Space, Jan. 24 to Feb.29, catalogue, forward by Robin Greenwood and Graham Burke, directors
The Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Seeing Through Modernist Edmonton 1970-1985,guest-curated by Dr. Anne Whitelaw, Feb. 29
Chicago Art Fair, Chicago Illinois represented by Nikola Rukaj, April
Poussin Gallery, London, England, Colour and Substance,Willard Boepple, John McLean, William Perehudoff, and TimScott, Oct. 26 to Nov.19
Kenderdine Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK. The Shortest Distance Between Two Points, curated by Kent Archer, September 4 to November 9
Selected Bibliography
Burke, Graham, Greenwood, Robin, Poussin Review 2008: Form and Space, published by the Poussin Gallery, London, England, c 2008
Carpenter, Ken, “Perehudoff”, two catalogue essays for solo exhibitions at Poussin Gallery, London, England, Feb. 15, 2008, and New Zones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB, March, 2008
Christie, Robert; Nasgaard, Roald; Wilkin, Karen;The Optimism of Colour, William Perehudoff, A Retrospective, Copyright 2010, Mendel Art Gallery, Individual Text copyright: The Authors; Printed in Canada by Friesens, Altona, MB
Eaton, Nicole; Weston, Hilary, At Home in Canada, text c Nicole Eaton & Hilary Weston 1995. Photography c Joy Von Tiedemann, 1995 ,Published by the Penguin Group, Printed in Singapore, pp30-35, book excerpt in “Canadian House & Home”, Sept. 1995, c 1995 by Canadian Home Publishers, Printed in Canada, p. 52,53
Greenberg, Clement, “Clement Greenberg’s View of Art on the Prairies”, ‘Canadian Art’, March/April 1963, (vol. 20, no. 2) pp.99-107
Nasgaard, Roald, Abstract Painting in Canada, c 2007 by Roald Nasgaard, Published by Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, BC, and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS Printed and Bound in China by C. & C Offset Printing Co. Ltd., pp. 248,287-91,294
Wilkin, Karen, “Report From the West”, ‘Art in America’, May-June, 1972, (vol.60, no.3) p.102-105
Wilkin, Karen, “William Perehudoff”, ‘ArtsCanada’, Early Autumn, 1972(vol. 29, no.3) p.102
Wilkin, Karen, “William Perehudoff”, ‘Art International’, July/August 1977, (vol. 21, no.4) p.16
Wilkin, Karen, The Hudson 55 Review, Magazine of Literature and Arts, 55th Anniversary Year, p.683, 2004
Awards & Honors
1977
1978
1989
1994
1998
2005
2003
2012
Manisphere 14th International Juried Art Show (Clement Greenberg Juror)
University of Alberta National Award in Painting
Canada Council Grant
Citation Award given by the New York State Association of Architects for the collaborativearchitectural project of the Triangle Artists’ Workshop in 1987
Saskatchewan Order of Merit
Order of Canada
Centennial Medal of Saskatchewan
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws (honoris causa), University of Regina
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal
Wilkin, Karen, “Report From the West”, ‘Art in America’, May-June, 1972, (vol.60, no.3) p.102-105
Wilkin, Karen, “William Perehudoff”, ‘ArtsCanada’, Early Autumn, 1972(vol. 29, no.3) p.102
Wilkin, Karen, “William Perehudoff”, ‘Art International’, July/August 1977, (vol. 21, no.4) p.16
Wilkin, Karen, The Hudson 55 Review, Magazine of Literature and Arts, 55th Anniversary Year, p.683, 2004
Selected Collections
American Express
The Art Gallery of Mississauga
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
The Art Gallery of Ontario
Art Gallery of Windsor
The Bank of Montreal
The Bank of Nova Scotia
Canada Council Art Bank
Coca Cola Ltd.
Confederation Art Centre and Museum
Dunlop Art Gallery
The Edmonton Art Gallery
The Glenbow-Alberta Institute
Her majesty Queen Elizabeth (Print in Portfolio, 1976 in honour
of the Commonwealth Games)
Kamloops Art Gallery
London Art Gallery
The MacKenzie Art Gallery
McIntosh Gallery, The University of Western Ontario
Mendel Art Gallery
Moose Jaw Art Gallery
Musee D’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Lavalin Collection
Nabisco Food Brands
The National Gallery of Canada
The National Art Gallery of Malaysia
The National Gallery of Modern Arts, New Delhi, India
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Royal Bank of Canada
The Saskatchewan Arts Board
Sask Tel
Shell Canada Ltd.
Secal-Alcan Ltd.
Toronto Dominion Bank
University of Calgary
University of Edinburgh
University of Lethbridge
Westburne Industrial Enterprises Ltd.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Vancouver Art Gallery