Paint Your Dragon, a gallery in the Studios of Chris Wilson and Gene Olson
	Bronze Sculpture - by George Morrison   1919 - 2000 7.6 x 7.6 x 27.3 cm (3" x 3" x 10.75") (scale) artist's proof unnumbered - from an edition         Please contact us if you are interested in this piece.
George Morrison, Native American painter and sculptor. 1919 - 2000 Born in Grand Marais, Minnesota he was an enrolled member of Grand Portage Reservation, he attended the Minneapolis School of Art, now the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and after spending many years on the East Coast and in Europe, he returned to the Twin Cities in 1972 to teach at the University of Minnesota. In 1983 he returned to the area of his childhood, the North Shore where he died on April 17, 2000.   He received numerous awards and honors including an honorary M.F.A degree in 1969 from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Also in 1969 he was invited to visit Cuba on a cultural exchange program for the exhibition El Autentico Pueblo. In 1997, Morrison's Red Totem was one of 12 works chosen for a special exhibition in the Jacqueline Kennedy Sculpture Garden at the White House. He received the first Master Artist Award in 1999 from the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN. He is one of Minnesota's most revered artists. an interview with George Morrison - a piece from this edition in the National Museum of the American Indian show in Washington, DC

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