Circle Arts International, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature
Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, Toronto, 2007, page 290
Nancy E. Dillow, William Perehudoff: Recent Paintings, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, 1978, page 7
During the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops held in 1962-63, William Perehudoff was introduced to Post-Painterly Abstraction by art critic Clement Greenberg and American artist Kenneth Noland. Perehudoff had a great interest in colour experimentation and sought to define his own unique style. In” Abstract Painting in Canada”, Roald Nasgaard refers to Perehudoff's paintings' “plays of light and dark, of transparency and opacity [as] subtle and sensuous.” Many of the artist's wide horizontal canvases of the mid-to-late 1970s were constructed of coloured ground transversed by vibrant parallel bars of colour. AC-78-20 contains what Dillow described as “the horizontal stretch of colour...[that] vibrates like a violin string, activating the entire canvas.” The long parallel stripes incite thoughts of a sunset over a prairie landscape; the purity of the level, immense fields which were central to the artist's life and work.
