Description: This is a unique original oil on stretched canvas painting by renowned (Ojibwe / Chippewa) abstractionist George Morrison (1919–2000). This painting originally came out of an Upstate New York Estate with ties to South Florida. The current owners purchased it and have consigned it. The original owners told the current owners after purchase that their family out of Upstate New York purchased this work in New York City in the early 1990's form a Fine Art Gallery. The Gallery told them that this was a 'A Compression Landscape Color Theory Study of Lake Superior at Dusk' that George Morrison did at his home studio called Red Rock in Grand Portage, Minnesota. George Morrison perhaps did this painting some time in the late 1970's or early 1980's. No date is found on the work. The painting comprises of various color blocks of heavy textured unblended oil paint. The colors and application are very concurrent with other George Morrison oil paintings. It would make sense, as the verbal provenance indicates, that perhaps this was a study or a test for future landscape paintings. After purchase from the New York Gallery, the work was then taken and eventually displayed in a vacation home in South Florida where it had been until the current owners purchased it a few years ago and brought it out West. The painting itself measures 23"x29" around the stretcher bars with about a 1.5" inch simple wood & brass frame around it giving the framed work a total measurement of 24.5" x 30.5". The painting is signed in the bottom right hand corner of the front of the canvas. There are a few ineligible and faded markings on the back of the stretcher bars and frame. This painting is at least 40/50 years old and has some slight wear and tear. There is some very slight spiderwebbing cracks in certain areas in the heavy textured oil paint that can be seen with a magnifying glass. The work has had a thorough inspection under blacklight and there seems to be no holes tears blemishes or repairs that could be detected. The back of the canvas has a one inch linear water stain strip running perpendicular on the right side of the canvas that can be seen in the photographs that would indicate some kind of water or humidity exposure. The current owners have indicated the one inch linear water stain strip was visible when they purchased from the original owners after they took the paper off the back. There is unfortunately no original receipt or paper work to corroborate the verbal provenance. However the current owners have shown photos of the work informally to various Galleries and Museums that deal in George Morrison and have been told that it is genuine. We have also scrutinized the signature and compared it to many others and it is most certainly a match. If a potential buyer would like any more in-depth photos or video of the painting please let us know and we will happily to provide. The work is sold as is and is final. “I let images emerge from the masses of paint. So there may be hidden associations that become real for me in the final mark.”—George Morrison I am fascinated with ambiguity, change of mood and color, the sense of sound and movement above and below the horizon line. Therein lies some of the mystery of paintings: the transmutation, through choosing and manipulating the pigment, that becomes the substance of art.”—George Morrison I always see the horizon as the edge of the world. And then you go beyond that, and then you see the phenomenon of the sky and that goes beyond also, so therefore I always imagine, in a certain surrealist world, that I am there, that I would like to imagine for myself that it is real.”—George Morrison George Morrison (1919-2000) -George Morrison was born in 1919 in Chippewa City, MN, near Grand Marais on the North Shore of Lake Superior. Morrison would go on to become one of America’s most distinguished and renowned abstract expressionist artists with his landscape paintings, prints, drawings and wood collage sculptures. Though he never considered himself an “Indian artist” but rather an “artist who is Indian,” Morrison has been called the founder of the modern Native art. A member of the Kitchi-Onigaming / Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and the third of 12 children of James and Barbara Morrison, his Indigenous name was Wah Wah The Go Nay Go Ba (“Standing in the Northern Lights”). At age six and speaking only Ojibwe, he attended the government-run boarding school in Hayward, Wisc. where he learned English. At age 10, he underwent surgery in Minneapolis to treat tuberculosis (TB) of his left hip and ended up in a body cast for almost a year during recovery; the surgery left him with a permanent gait to his walk. But it was during the year in the hospital that Morrison got his introduction to his future career as a creator and teacher through reading, crafts and art. After graduation from Grand Marais high school in 1938, Morrison attended the Minneapolis School of Arts (now Minneapolis College of Arts and Design), graduating in 1943. In 1943 he was awarded a Van Derlip Traveling Scholarship that enabled him to travel to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League in New York City. In 1948 he had his first solo exhibit at the Grand Central Moderns Gallery, New York City. In 1952 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to travel and study art in Europe. He studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and at the University of Aix-Marseilles, Aix-en-Provence, France. In 1963 Morrison was appointed Assistant Professor of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. In 1970 he returned to Minnesota as visiting professor of Studio Arts and American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota. In 1973 was appointed the Professor of Studio Arts, University of Minnesota. In 1974 the Walker Art Center presented George Morrison: Drawings, an exhibit of line drawings curated by Philip Larson. In 1990 the Minnesota Museum of American Art and the Tweed Museum of Art presented a retrospective exhibit Standing in the Northern Lights. In 1997 he was honored in a ceremony at the White House when his work was included in the Twentieth Century American Sculpture at The White House: Honoring Native America exhibition. In 1999 Morrison was honored as inaugural Master Artist in the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis. In 1983 Morrison moved permanently to his studio/home which he called Red Rock at Grand Portage, until his passing in 2000.
Price: 48000 USD
Location: Taos, New Mexico
End Time: 2024-12-03T08:42:55.000Z
Shipping Cost: 750 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: George Morrison
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Signed By: George Morrison
Size: Medium
Item Length: 30 in
Region of Origin: Minnesota, USA
Framing: Framed
Year of Production: 1980's
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 24 in
Style: Abstract, Avant-garde, Contemporary Art, Cubism, Expressionism, Minimalism, Native American, Surrealism, Abstractionist
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Culture: Chippewa
Item Width: 3 in
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1980-1989
Signed: Yes
Period: Contemporary (1970 - 2020)
Title: Compression Dusk Red Rock Lake Superior Color Theory Study
Material: Canvas, Oil
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Subject: Landscape, Mythology, Chippewa, Lake, Nature, Phenomenology, New York City, New Mexico
Type: Painting
Theme: Art, Cultures & Ethnicities, Nature, Dusk, Red Rock, Landscape, Native American, Santa Fe, Contemporary Native American, Minnesota, Lake Superior, New York
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
