George Morrison(1919–2000)

Spectral Flow. Jasper Sky. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, 1990

acrylic on canvas on board

6 × 12 in

Signed, titled and dated on reverse

Provenance

Private Collection, Minnesota
Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis
Private Collection, New York

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, by George Morrison, oil on canvas, 1957

Heal, 1957

Untitled, by George Morrison, black ink on Strathmore, 1972

Untitled, 1972

Aureate Vertical Study, by George Morrison, gouache on paper, 1957

Aureate Vertical Study, 1957

Soft Afternoon. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, by George Morrison, Acrylic on canvas on board, 1986

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

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