1961, George Morrison, Untitled -- National Gallery of Art (Washington)
From the museum label: Untitled is among the "one-shot" paintings that George Morrison completed in roughly six hours during a single session in his art studio. He applied oil paint directly from tubes onto the canvas and then sometimes spread it with his fingers. Like many artists of the 1950s, Morrison used paint to record a process rather than to produce a particular image.
Morrison, an enrolled member of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, challenged expectations that he should work with Native American forms: "I always just stated the fact that I was a painter, and I happened to be Indian."
1961, George Morrison, Untitled -- National Gallery of Art (Washington)
From the museum label: Untitled is among the "one-shot" paintings that George Morrison completed in roughly six hours during a single session in his art studio. He applied oil paint directly from tubes onto the canvas and then sometimes spread it with his fingers. Like many artists of the 1950s, Morrison used paint to record a process rather than to produce a particular image.
Morrison, an enrolled member of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, challenged expectations that he should work with Native American forms: "I always just stated the fact that I was a painter, and I happened to be Indian."