George Morrison (artist)

George Morrison
Born	1919 Chippewa City, MN
Died	April 17, 2000 Grand Marais, MN
Occupation	Abstract Expressionist Painter and Sculptor

George Morrison (1919 – April 17, 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, another Minnesota artist, who taught at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Saint Paul Academy and is known for her series of pieces based on the Witch Tree. Morrison died in Grand Marais.

[edit] Selected Solo Exhibitions

1948-1960: Grand Central Moderns Gallery - New York City, NY
1949: Hart Gallery - Duluth, MN
1950: Ed Weiner Gallery - Provincetown, MA
1954: University of Minnesota - Duluth, MN
1955: Shorter College - Rome, GA
1957: University of Georgia - Athens, GA
1960: Dayton Art Institute - Dayton, OH
1961: Iowa State College - Cedar Falls, IA
1962: Cornell University - Ithaca, NY; Antioch College - Yellow Springs, OH
1967: Academy of Fine Arts - Lynchburg, VA
1973: Heard Museum - Phoenix, AZ; Armon Carter Museum of Art - Fort Worth, TX; Art Museum of South Texas - Corpus Christi, TX
1976: Minneapolis Institute of Arts - Minneapolis, MN; Bethel College - Saint Paul, MN
1978: Macalester College - Saint Paul, MN; University of Wisconsin-Stout - Menomonie, WI; Carl N. Gorman Museum, University of California - Davis, CA
1983: University of Minnesota - University Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
1984: “George Morrison: Paper Collages,” Tweed Museum of Art - University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN;
1987-1988: “Horizon: Small Painting Series 1980-87,” Minnesota Museum of American Art - St. Paul, MN
1990: “Standing in the Northern Lights: George Morrison, A retrospective,” circ., Tweed Museum of Art - University of Minnesota, Duluth and the Minnesota Museum of Art, St Paul, MN.

Jane B. Katz, This song remembers : self-portraits of native Americans in the arts, (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1980.) ISBN 039529522X 9780395295229
Jamake Highwater, The sweet grass lives on : fifty contemporary North American Indian artists, (New York : Lippincott & Crowell, ©1980.) ISBN 0690019254 : 9780690019254
Edwin L. Wade; Carol Haralson; Philbrook Art Center, The Arts of the North American Indian : native traditions in evolution, (New York : Hudson Hills Press in association with Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, ©1986.) ISBN 0933920555 : 9780933920552
Lydia L. Wyckoff; Philbrook Art Center, Visions and voices : Native American painting from the Philbrook Museum of Art (Tulsa : Philbrook Museum of Art ; Albuquerque, N.M. : Distributed by the University of New Mexico Press, ©1996.) ISBN 0866590129 9780866590129 0866590137 9780866590136
George Morrison; Margot Fortunato Galt, Turning the feather around : my life in art, (St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, ©1998.) ISBN 0873513592 9780873513593 0873513606 9780873513609

H. H. Arnason, History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. 3rd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986.
Joseph Bruchac, The Heye Center Opens in Manhattan with Three Exhibitions of Native Arts, (Smithsonian v25 n7 p40-49 Oct 1994) ISSN 0037-7333 OCLC 93642777
William Rubin, "Arshile Gorky, Surrealism and the New American Painting," In Henry Geldzahler, New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970, (New York, Dutton 1969.) OCLC 45703 p. 372-402
W. Jackson Rushing, Native American art and the New York avant-garde : a history of cultural primitivism, (Austin : University of Texas Press, 1995.) ISBN 0292755473 9780292755475
Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System; Archival, Manuscript and Photographic Collections, George Morrison

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.