George Morrison
1919–2000·USA
Selected works · Additional works available upon request
·Untitled (Red Painting), c. 1965
Native Ground. Solitude. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, 1997
Ashen Pink. Ashen Green. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, 1990
Soft Afternoon. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, 1986
Untitled, 1976-1978
Untitled, 1972
Untitled, 1960
Heal, 1957
Aureate Vertical Study, 1957
Subjugation, 1946
Dappled Light Shadows (Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape), 1993
Spectral Flow. Jasper Sky. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, 1990
PARADISAL WATERS: LAKE SUPERIOR LANDSCAPE, 1984
George Morrison (1919–2000) was an Ojibwe painter, printmaker, and sculptor from Chippewa City, Minnesota, and a member of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Trained at the Minneapolis School of Art and, from 1943, at the Art Students League in New York, Morrison worked within the postwar abstract milieu while maintaining a sustained formal attachment to Lake Superior. His mature practice includes gestural abstractions, driftwood relief constructions, and the Horizon paintings, in which the meeting of water and sky functions as a structural device rather than a literal motif. He taught studio art and Native American studies at the University of Minnesota from 1970 to 1983 and later worked from his Grand Portage studio. Recent reassessments include Modern Spirit: The Art of George Morrison and The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York at The Met.