George Morrison exhibits a portrait at the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Saint Paul, Minnesota and was awarded the 3rd place Ribbon Prize.
George Morrison graduated from the Minneapolis School of Art with a BFA and received the prestigious Ethel Morrison Van Derlip scholarship to continue his studies.
Morrison moved to New York and enrolled from 1943 to 1946 at the Art Students League (ASL). He lives in an apartment in Greenwich Village, develops artistic friendships with Cicely Aikman Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock and Marsha Marcus, Willem de Kooning, hanging out at the renowned Cedar Bar or P.J. Carney’s Pub.
“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.”