William Ronald — Canadian Abstract Painting
2 min readNov 16, 2019
William Ronald ( 1926–1998) was an important Canadian painter, best known as the founder of the influential Canadian abstract art group Painters Eleven in 1954. William Ronald was a graduate of the Ontario College of Art who quickly found that abstract painters could not get their work exhibited in Toronto galleries. Working for the Robert Simpson Co. department store, he persuaded management to pair abstract paintings with furniture displays, thereby discovering a way to get the public to accept non-representational art.
