George Morrison(1919–2000)

Soft Afternoon. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, 1986

Acrylic on canvas on board

5.5 × 11 in

Signed, titled and dated on reverse

Price on request

Provenance

Private Collection, Grand Marais, MN;
Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Private Collection, New York

Exhibitions

Horizon: Small Painting Series, 1980-87, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
(July 10–19, 1987)

Horizon: Small Painting Series, 1980-87, Minnesota Museum of American Art, at the Landmark Center, St. Paul, MN
(November 14, 1987–January 17, 1988)

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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