WILLIAM PEREHUDOFF "AC-85-42" PAINTING, 1985William Perehudoff (1918 2013) is one of the most cherished and collected Canadian abstract painters. His work is a prime example of how color field painting was expressed in Canada. Like Jack Bush, and some of his American contemporaries, he was encouraged and guided by legendary New York critic Clement Greenberg. Perehudoff is known for his simple and exuberant canvases that celebrate the interaction and power of color. He spent several summers at

Tod's images of "precious" (or banal) decorative objects stem from her interest in the paradoxes surrounding collecting

evoking the feeling of dizziness that comes with spinning around in circles

seamlessly blurring the line between abstraction and figuration

5"H 22"W (aprox

Giving us a hint at direction with his title

Wesselmann

where his career immediately blossomed

and fantasy subjects

Editions of this print are in the permanent collections of The National Gallery of Art

the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

In the lithograph

circa 1953