%C2%A9 Estate of George Morrison %2F Briand Morrison
Untitled (Cap d'Antibes), 1953
George Morrisonexpand_more
Black ink and wash on paperexpand_more
Gift of Mary and Bob Merskyexpand_more 2018.104.9
Not on Viewexpand_more
A member of the Anishinaabe people of the Grand Portage Reservation, George Morrison was active in the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, a mid-20th-century movement of avant-garde artists who saw abstraction as the essential vehicle for conveying intense emotion and exploring the unconscious through color, form, space, and gesture. In December 1952, after completing studies at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, Morrison moved with his family to Antibes, a Mediterranean resort town on the French Riviera. There, he frequented the Cap d’Antibes, a rugged forested peninsula that offered him a stunning natural setting for observing the changing qualities of land, sky, and water. Morrison likely made this drawing in response to the distinctive rock formations he would have undoubtedly seen along much of the shoreline. Using intuition and the “automatic,” or free-association drawing techniques of the Surrealists, he generated a geometric abstraction featuring a web-like pattern of interlacing lines and rectilinear shapes resembling the cape’s rocky outcroppings
Details
- Title
- Untitled (Cap d'Antibes)
- Artist Life
- (Grand Portage Anishinaabe), 1919 - 2000
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2018.104.9
- Provenance
- The artist, Duluth, Minn. (Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis); (Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, sold 2006 to Mersky); Robert B. Mersky, Minneapolis; given to MIA, 2018.
- Curator Approved
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