9.02.2007

William Perehudoff - Canadian Painter

William Perehudoff (born 1919 in Langham, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian painter, most famous with Color field painting. He also married to the landscape painter Dorothy Knowles.
Life and career
Born in Saskatchewan in 1919, his formal education took and ended at grade four, and worked on his parent’s farm near Saskatoon for few years even as developing an interest in art. He became a close friend of the art critic Clement Greenberg, who is having already been closely associated with Greenberg’s idea of Post-painterly Abstraction.
In 1994, he was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.
Due to failing health, Perehudoff gave up painting in 2001.





















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