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George Morrison(1919–2000)

Dappled Light Shadows (Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape), 1993

Acrylic on canvas on board

5 × 15 in

Signed on verso

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Alfred DeCredico, Providence
Cesare DeCredico, Providence

About the Artist

George Morrison(1919–2000)

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.

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More works by George Morrison

Heal, 1957
oil on canvas
Untitled, 1972
black ink on Strathmore
Aureate Vertical Study, 1957
gouache on paper
Soft Afternoon. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, 1986
Acrylic on canvas on board
Ashen Pink. Ashen Green. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, 1990
Acrylic on canvas on board
Native Ground. Solitude. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, 1997
Acrylic on canvas on board
Subjugation, 1946
Oil on canvas
Untitled, 1960
Watercolor on paper