Attributed to George Morrison, it does not have a COA. Medium: watercolor paper, 1960. Frame: 27.5 x 22.5 inches. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1919 - 2000. Born in northern Minnesota in the Grand Portage band of Chippewa (Ojibway) Indians, George Morrison made abstract paintings, wood collages, and sculptures that enlarged the notion of Native American art beyond the stereotypical Indian subject matter.Morrison had a traditional Ojibway upbringing on the Grand Portage reservation before attending an Indian boarding school in Wisconsin. He studied art at the Minneapolis School of Art (today the Minneapolis College of Art and Design) and the Art Students League in New York. Living and working in New York in the 1950s and 60s, he participated in the prime of the Abstract Expressionist movement with richly colored abstract paintings and Surrealist drawingsMorrison taught art at the Rhode Island School of Design in the 1960s. On returning to his home state in 1970, he taught in the studio art and Indian studies programs at the University of Minnesota until retirement in 1983. His late works included large relief sculptures, as wide as twenty feet, composed of found and prepared wooden elements collaged together. He also made a series of commissioned wooden column-like sculptures he called "Totems," and painted many small (one foot wide or less), thickly-painted abstractions known as the "Horizons" series. Morrison's art was featured in a debut exhibition (with Allan Houser) at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in 2004.

All authorship of items in this catalog are described according to the following terms:

Signed [Artist Name] : In cases in which the signature is legible in the lot, this work is described as-is with no attributions given.

By [Artist Name] : The work is by the artist.

Attributed to [Artist Name] : The work may be ascribed to the artist on the basis of style, but there may be some question as to actual authorship.

In the manner of [Artist Name] : The work was executed by an unknown hand, but was designed deliberately to emulate the style of the artist.

After [Artist Name] : The work was executed by an unknown hand, but is a deliberate copy of a known work by the artist.

Circle of [Artist Name] : A work of the period of the artist showing his influence, closely associated with the artist but not necessarily his pupil.

Follower of [Artist Name]: A work by a pupil or a follower of the artist (not necessarily a pupil).

American, 19th century: This work was executed by an unknown hand, and can only be identified by origin (i.e., region, period).

Mint, based on the description