George Morrison exhibits a portrait at the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Saint Paul, Minnesota and is awarded the 3rd place Ribbon Prize.

George Morrison graduates from the Minneapolis School of Art with a BFA and receives the prestigious Ethel Morrison Van Derlip scholarship to continue his studies. 

Morrison moves to New York and enrolls at the Art Students League (ASL) from 1943 to 1946. 

He lives in an apartment in Greenwich Village, and hangs out at the renowned Cedar Bar or P.J. Carney’s Pub, developing artistic friendships with Cicely Aikman, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Marcia Marcus, and Willem de Kooning.

“When I approached New York at night, it looked like a magical city-bridges and all of Manhattan lit up like a magical place. Always impressive. I still get the same charge when I approach it.”