George Morrison ART FOR SALE

1919 Chippewa City, Minnesota - 2000 Red Rock near Grand Marais, Minnesota. Known for: Abstract expressionost painting, modernist Indian, collage.

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George Morrison was a member of the Grand Portage Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. He was born in 1919 in Chippewa City, Cook County, Minnesota, near the Grand Portage Indian Reservation. Morrison was one of 12 children in a poor household. His father worked as a trapper and used his fluent knowledge of the Ojibwe language to interpret court proceedings. As a child, he spent months in a full body cast recovering from a surgery; it was during this period of recuperation that he began to draw. Morrison briefly attended a Native American boarding school in Hayward, Wisconsin.[5] Due to poor health, Morrison returned to Minnesota and attended a Native American sanatorium in Onigum, Minnesota and the Gillette State Hospital for Crippled... Read full biography

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Procession

Type:Drawing

Year:1957

Size:16.75" x 22.25"

Medium:Gouache

Signed:Signed and Dated

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Wonderful early work by George Morrison. Nicely framed and ready to hang. Signed and Dated 1957. Provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey. Excellent Condition. Frame size is H 31" x W 36".

Price: SOLD