George Morrison (artist)

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George Morrison (1919-17 April 2000) was an American landscape painter and sculptor. An Ojibwa born on the Grand Portage Indian Reservation near Chippewa City, Minnesota, he attended Grand Marais High School and then the Minnesota School of Art, now the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. While a Fulbright scholar he studied in Paris and Antibes. Later in New York City he was part of a circle of abstract expressionists. Morrison taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Minnesota. He is well known for wood collage sculptures and for the landscape paintings he preferred. He was married to Hazel Belvo. Morrison passed away in Grand Marais.

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• Minneapolis Institute of Arts (undated). works of George Morrison. Retrieved on 2007-01-19.
• Ask ART (2004). George Morrison. Retrieved on 2007-01-19.
• Archuleta, Margaret, The Heard Museum, The White House (undated). Twentieth Century American Sculpture - Exhibit VI: Red Totem (1980). Retrieved on 2007-01-19.