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...William Scott Ferguson prizes 1961-63 have been awarded to Charles R. Bush '64 (first prize) and William F. Pedersen Jr. '64 (second prize). The two sophomores was books for outstanding essays written as part of the tutorial assignment...
Currently, Pedersen is having his first one-man U.S. exhibition at the Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture-a show that to most other men would bring visions of new fame and soaring prices. Pedersen's visions are of quite another sort...
...Moon-Smeared Seas. The world he paints is as private as the life he leads. Ghostly boats sail his moon-smeared seas, and kindergarten monsters roam his curious landscapes (see color). These, says Pedersen, are "fairytale pictures," and like all fairy tales, they have a touch of sorcery. Pedersen has never broken faith with childhood; basically he is an unspoiled innocent whose paintings sometimes have the quality of folk art, and almost always have the atmosphere of the nursery. The most ordinary everyday experience catapults him into fantasy. "To make a painting," he explains, "is a process by which...
...Copenhagen construction worker, Pedersen did not decide to become a painter until, at the age of 20, he fell in love with a girl named Else, who was a painter herself. The next year, in 1934, the two got married. Pedersen never saw any point in art schools: "They tie you. What you must learn is to master your own technique." He was strongly influenced by the childlike fantasies of Paul Klee and the emotion-soaked colors of Emile Nolde. Like Picasso, he went through "periods" keyed by colors. There were rose-colored paintings, followed by a long series...
...Fear of Luxury. In 1958, Pedersen won a $1,000 prize, and with the money he bought himself and his wife his isolated house in Jutland. But he has never forgotten the poverty of his early days. For privacy's sake, he has no phone and no radio. But he is also compulsive about not becoming accustomed to even the most modest luxury. He refuses to subscribe to a newspaper, instead reads the copy in the public library...