Met announces the exhibition of the late artist Minnesota George Morrison

When the Metropolitan Museum opens the arts Magic City: George Morrison New York On July 17, the first individual exhibition of Morrison’s work will celebrate a major institution outside Minnesota since the year 2000 – which many see as a teacher for both the artist and art history in the state.

This will be the first time that many have learned the story of Morrison in New York.

“Everyone looks at it as a great moment in Minnesota, New York,” says Brenda Child, a professor of American studies at Northwar, Minnesota University.

The child, who helped find George Morrison Center original artsHe wrote a piece of the exhibition on Morrison, which will appear in the MET Bulletin, a museum magazine.

The Minnesota Museum of American Art (also known as M) in Saint -Paul is a major partner at the exhibition, as two books of Maurison’s drawing and 11 works on paper were sent to New York.

Met coordinator is Patricia Marukin Nour, who holds a doctorate from the University of Minnesota and is at the Board of Directors of the M. The St. Paul that holds One of the largest Morrison work groups in the world.

Kate Ben, Director of M. says.

Bene explains that Morrison is “the amazing Hoptiete of Ojiboi, whose work was seen all over the world and his work is also visible throughout the twin cities.”

Morrison, the artist Grand Portage Anishinaabe, is one of the greatest expressions and abstract modernists.

He may be famous for his bright abstract work that hopes for the idea of ​​the horizon, inspired by his time to live on the beaches of the “big lake” or Gichigami/Lake Superior.

Many of these works will appear in the exhibition.

But the main trend of the show will be the time of Morrison in New York, how it shapes it and how the art world was formed.

Morrison moved from Minnesota to New York City in the 1940s to study in a scholarship in the Association of Art Students. Here, he formed friendships with her colleagues in all modern stars, Willim de Konng, Louise Nevison, Jackson Bullock and Franz Klein.

He returned to MinnesotaWith the former artist and wife, Aseali Balfu, in 1970.

Met says the exhibition “explores how the aesthetic inspiration for Maurison and its future path derived from his love for New York, which was called” Magic City. “

The child in Minnesota says, we tend to reduce the influence of Morrison outside the country.

“It is really necessary to admit that George Morrison was at the center of the American abstract movement in the middle of the century and that he spent this important part of his career in New York City,” Childe said.

Agree between.

He said: “It is really important for people to understand not only the influence that other places have on Minnesota artists, but the influence of Minnesota artists abroad towards the rest of the country and the rest of the world.” “It was a changing games. He was ahead of his time, and I think what he represents is very important for the audience as a whole to see and see in terms of thinking about Minnesota artists.”

The exhibition will continue until May 31, 2026.