George Morrison was a Native American artist best known for his brilliantly-colored landscape paintings and wood collages. Detailing the American landscape through reverential lens towards his subject matter, Morrison’s works were deeply entrenched in the Chippewa tribe’s culture. “I seek the power of the rock, the magic of the water, the religion of the tree, the color of the wind, and the enigma of the horizon.” Born Wah Wah Teh Go Nay Ga Bo (Standing in the Northern Lights) in 1919 on the Grand Portage Indian Reservation, MN, he went on to study at the Minnesota School of Art during the late 1930s. In 1943, he moved to New York to attend the Art Students League where the young artist absorbed the Abstract Expressionist doctrine of the day. Before receiving a Fulbright scholarship to study in Paris and Antibes, he would become loosely associated with the renowned Abstract Expressionist painters Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. Morrison's legacy is partially informed by his tenure as a painting professor at several American universities, including Cornell University, Penn State, the University of Minnesota, and the Rhode Island School of Design. The artist died on April 17, 2000 in Red Rock, MN. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, among others.