Image: Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul
The galleries present a wide range of artworks in ever-shifting configurations, fulfilling a promise for an expanded and increasingly more diverse M. These configurations highlight the collection’s strengths and make unexpected connections across materials and time.
The installation is organized through several ways of relating to one another. Its sections address connection through relationships, the cosmos, the land, where people live, and imagination.
George Morrison was a Grand Portage Ojibwe artist whose career began in Minnesota and continued in New York, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Dayton, Ohio, and Providence, Rhode Island. He was innovative and restlessly curious, thriving on meeting new people and exchanging ideas with other artists. Minnesota—specifically the north shore of what the Ojibwe call gichi-gami, or Great Sea, known as Lake Superior—remained Morrison’s spiritual center. The Minnesota Museum of American Art says it had a long relationship with Morrison and has the most comprehensive public collection of his art.
Those variations come through changes in the quality of a line, the rapidity of strokes, or the brush he used.
