George Morrison is born to James and Barbara (née Mesaba) Morrison on September 30, 1919, Chippewa City, east of the town Grand Marais, northern Minnesota, enrolled in the Grand Portage (Lake Superior) Band of Chippewa.1 He is the third of twelve children.
Morrison’s artwork is informed and shaped by his life growing up along the North Shore of Lake Superior and by his Ojibwe heritage.2