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.... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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
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 Children in St. Paul.[3] He attended Grand Marais High School, graduating in 1938, and th... Read full biography
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About George Morrison: Books
Books & Publications (29)
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Hazel Belvo: A Matriarch of Art
2020
L'Enfant, Julie
256 pages (color)
Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art
2012
Russell, Karen Kramer
244 pages (color)
Our Treasures: Highlights from the Minnesota Museum of American Art (Minnesota Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
2011
Makholm, Kristin (Editor)
0 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Native Modernism The Art of George Morrison and Allan Houser
2005
Lowe, Truman T
128 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey
2003
Herskovic, Marika (editor)
372 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Turning the Feather Around, My Life in Art
1998
Galt, Margot Fortunato
205 pages (color)
Native American Painters of the Twentieth Century
1995
Henkes, Robert
219 pages (color)
The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters
1995
Lester, Patrick D.
701 pages
Native American Artists
1995
Reno, Dawn E.
230 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Shared Visions Native American Painters & Sculptors (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Archuleta, M/R R Strickland
110 pages (color)
Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings
335 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Magic Images Contemporary Native American Art
1981
Wade, Edwin L/R Strickland
128 pages
The Sweet Grass Lives On: Fifty Contemporary North American Indian Artists
1980
Highwater, Jamake
192 pages (color)
The Sweetgrass Lives On Fifty Contemporary North American Indian Artists
1980
Highwater, Jamake
192 pages (color)
This Song Remembers: Self-Portraits of Native Americans in the Arts
1980
Katz, Jane B.
207 pages
Collection of American Art Randolph-Macon Women's College
1977
Williams, Mary Frances
211 pages (color)
American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue
1975
Chambers, Bruce W
127 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972
1972
Amon Carter Museum
600 pages
American Indian Painters: A Biographical Directory
1968
Snodgrass, Jeanne O.
269 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1959 American Biographies
1959
Gilbert, Dorothy (Editor)
718 pages
Fulbright Painters: Exhibits Organized by the Smithsonian Institution in Cooperation with the Institute of International Education (Exhibition catalog)
1958
Goodrich, Lloyd
48 pages
Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956 (Exhibition catalog)