Ojibwe artist George Morrison, an undersung Abstract Expressionist, gets a line of USPS postage stamps:
With his bold colors and geometric abstractions, Morrison found kinship with contemporaries including Willem de Kooning and Louise Nevelson, and he developed a style that blends Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and Surrealism. After a stint in Paris as a Fulbright scholar, Morrison began to gain some critical renown, and had 12 solo shows in New York between 1948 and 1960—though he never found the same degree of success as his peers.
The defining theme in Morrison’s work across painting and sculpture is the presence of a horizon line bisecting the picture plane, representing the delineation between ground and sky, as well as the spiritual and natural worlds. The deep jewel tones he utilized in many paintings are echoed in varying shades of wood collected from the waters’ edge, fitting together fields of color like puzzle pieces or broken sea glass.
His work is in collections across the United States including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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