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This Day in Minnesota History

January 17, 2000

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George Morrison, an abstract painter and sculptor, dies. Born in Chippewa City, near the Grand Portage Indian Reservation of Ojibwe, in 1919, Morrison had pursued a career in art that took him to New York, Paris, Ohio, and Rhode Island. In 1970 he returned to Minnesota, where he taught American Indian studies and studio arts at the University of Minnesota for fifteen years. His works are in the collections of many galleries, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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