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George Morrison

1919–2000

Ojibwe (Grand Portage) artist with direct New York School participation; AEU keeps his Anishinaabe worldview, federal-boarding-school biography, and later museum framing as separate evidence layers rather than a single explanation of his abstraction.

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  • Ojibwe (Grand Portage)

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The National Gallery positions Morrison's 1961 Untitled within its Abstract Expressionist and New York School holdings and notes his work/exhibiting alongside fellow Abstract Expressionists.

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The National Gallery describes the work as engaging New York School concerns while also presenting a Native worldview and Anishinaabe cosmological structure.

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colonial institutional biography

The National Gallery records that Morrison attended the Hayward Indian School, a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, after speaking his Native language in childhood. AEU keeps this biographical fact separate from formal interpretation of his art.

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