He returned to Grand Portage in his later years, where he built Red Rock, a home and studio overlooking Lake Superior, and continued making art until his passing in 2000. He was a contemporary of artists such as Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Franz Kline, and Willem de Kooning and is best known for his abstract landscapes and monumental wood collages." George also served as a college professor at prestigious institutions such as Cornell University, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Dayton Art Institute and the University of Minnesota, where he also taught American Indian Studies. Morrison is widely considered one of the nation’s greatest American Abstract Expressionists and the founder of what is now known as Native Modernism. According to its release, George, born in 1919 to James and Barbara (Mesaba) Morrison in Chippewa City near Grand Marais, "lived a truly extraordinary life … one that took him from humble beginnings in the wilderness of northeastern Minnesota, to the epicenters of the post-World War II Modern Art movements in New York City and Paris. Antonio Alcalá was the art director and designer for this stamp pane." Helping to promote the honor to George, a member of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Visit Cook County added its voice in a press release this week. The selvage features a photograph of the artist in his home studio. A pane of 20 colorful stamps showcases five of Morrison’s artworks. Morrison is best known for his abstract landscapes and monumental wood collages. The release called George one of the nation’s greatest modernist artists and founder of Native Modernism, who "challenged prevailing ideas of what Native American art should be, arguing that an artist’s identity can exist independently from the nature of the art he creates.
Postal Service recently announced its new forever stamp line for 2022 and a name familiar to Lake Superior is among those honored – George Morrison. We also think you almost always can see a face among the waves … can you?įorever: The U.S. Each one of these photos is the third wave of the “Three Sisters” that we saw during the 45 minutes that we were there." Nice shooting in foul weather, Paul. The last wave of the “Three Sisters” is always bigger and the most dangerous. Stuck between every 40 or so waves during a big storm comes the 'Three Sisters,' the name commercial fishermen have given to the bigger waves. Shooting from the window of our car, we were able to see the powerful waves crashing into the 30-foot-high basalt cliffs of Crystal Bay.
I was thankful that I knew of one spot in Tettegouche State Park where you can park on the shoulder of Hwy. Rain was coming down in sheets, and without rain gear, there was no way I would be able to walk to the shoreline. Strong NE winds had been blowing all day and the swells were growing to over 20 feet. We were heading back home from Duluth and the Lake was wild. Every year on the 10th of November, the beacon at Split Rock is lighted to commemorate the sinking of the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald, and all the other vessels lost on the Great Lakes.
Says Paul in his Photo of the Week blog: "It was the day after the annual Edmund Fitzgerald memorial beacon lighting. Over the Top: Photographer Paul Sundberg up in Grand Marais, Minn., documented a storm on Minnesota's North Shore on Nov.