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