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Turning the feather around : my life in art / George Morrison as told to Margot Fortunato Galt.

Title
  1. Turning the feather around : my life in art / George Morrison as told to Margot Fortunato Galt.
Published by
  1. St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c1998.
Author
  1. Morrison, George, 1919-

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Additional authors
  1. Galt, Margot Fortunato.
Description
  1. 205 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
Summary
  1. "In this self-portrait, George Morrison, who calls himself "an artist who happens to be an Indian," tells a personal story of a life of changing horizons and artistic achievement. Growing up in a large family ("we didn't know we were poor"), he bartered pictures with town kids and carved trinkets to sell to tourists. Encouraged by good high school teachers at Grand Marais, he attended art school in Minneapolis, then moved to New York City. At the Art Students League, George went about becoming an artist in earnest, absorbing the excitement of the new American style, Abstract Expressionism; showing his work in Greenwich Village lofts; and spending summers working and painting in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Marriage and a teaching job at the Rhode Island School of Design seemed to fix his career firmly in the East. But in 1970, his direction turned toward home, and George began to search out his Ojibway heritage. His luminous, small, horizon paintings reflect his return to the "big water." Turning the Feather Around, the title taken from a name given to George in a healing ceremony, is a work of intimate personal disclosure that captures the pulse of the speaking voice and the vision of the artist's eye."--BOOK JACKET.
Series statement
  1. Midwest reflections
Uniform title
  1. Midwest reflections.
Subject
  1. Biographies
  2. Morrison, George, 1919-2000
  3. Artists > Minnesota > Biography
  4. Morrison, George, 1919-
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies
Contents
  1. Introduction / Margot Fortunato Galt -- Sky Layer: Attentive Waters. 1919-1929 -- Meeting Before the Hard Distance: Pathways. 1929-1943 -- Extended Path: Violet Water. 1943-1952 -- Passage: Fire Ridge. 1952-1954 -- Dreams of Destination: Earth Songs. 1954-1959 -- Crimson Ridge: Path to the Sky. 1960-1970 -- Converging of the Green: Fire Ridge. 1970-1983 -- Ceremony into the Light: Oracle. 1984-1996.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-202) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain