George Morrison(1919–2000)

Aureate Vertical Study, 1957

gouache on paper

25 × 38 in

Signed and dated in image “George Morrison - 1957”

$110,000

Description

A substantial gouache study for Morrison’s Aureate Vertical, the 1958 painting in the collection of the Chrysler Museum of Art and exhibited in The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Built from layered passages of yellow, orange, red, and rose, the work captures Morrison’s late-1950s New York-period abstraction in a large, fully realized format.

Provenance

Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis
Private Collection, Minneapolis
Private Collection, New York

Exhibitions

George Morrison: Traversal, 12 November - 31 December, 2022, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis

About the Artist

George Morrison(1919–2000)

George Morrison (1919–2000) was an Ojibwe painter, printmaker, and sculptor from Chippewa City, Minnesota, and a member of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Trained at the Minneapolis School of Art and, from 1943, at the Art Students League in New York, Morrison worked within the postwar abstract milieu while maintaining a sustained formal attachment to Lake Superior. His mature practice includes gestural abstractions, driftwood relief constructions, and the Horizon paintings, in which the meeting of water and sky functions as a structural device rather than a literal motif. He taught studio art and Native American studies at the University of Minnesota from 1970 to 1983 and later worked from his Grand Portage studio. Recent reassessments include Modern Spirit: The Art of George Morrison and The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York at The Met.

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George Morrison(1919–2000)

Aureate Vertical Study, 1957

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