George Morrison

Ojibwe, 1919 - 2000 George Morrison (Ojibwe, 1919–2000) was a Native American artist best known for his brilliantly-colored landscape paintings and wood collages. Detailing the American landscape through reverential lens towards his subject matter, Morrison’s works were deeply entrenched in the Ojibwe/Chippewa tribe’s culture. “I seek the power of the rock, the magic of the water, the religion of the tree, the color of the wind, and the enigma of the horizon.” Born Wah Wah Teh Go Nay Ga Bo (Standing in the Northern Lights) in 1919 on the Grand Portage Indian Reservation, MN, he went on to study at the Minnesota School of Art during the late 1930s.