A set of five stamps honors Ojibwe artist George Morrison.

Five prints of Morrison’s landscape paintings are, which are sold in sheets of twenty.

·         The first row features Sun and River (1949), watercolor and crayon on paper. The work is part of the collection of the Plains Art Museum.

·         The second row shows Phenomena Against the Crimson: Lake Superior Landscape (1985), acrylic on canvas. The work is of part of the collection of the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

·         The third row is Lake Superior Landscape (1981), acrylic on canvas. The work is part of the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

·         The fourth row is Spirit Path, New Day, Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape (1990), acrylic and pastel on paper. The work is part of the collection of the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

·         The fifth row is Untitled (1995), color pencil on paper. The work is part of the collection of Krista and Bill Thorburn.

George Morrison was born Wah Wah Teh Go Nay Ga Bo (Standing in the Northern Lights) in the Grand Portage Reservation of Minnesota in 1919. As a child, he was sent alongside his brother to the Hayward Indian Boarding School in Wisconsin. He graduated from the Minneapolis School of Art (later the Minneapolis College of Art and Design) in 1943 on a tribal scholarship, where his original plan to study commercial art shifted to fine art. He then received a scholarship to study at New York’s Art Students League, and a Fulbright later to study in Paris in 1952.

A landscape painter and sculptor, he had several solo exhibitions in New York City and across the Midwest, but especially in his home state. Morrison became a professor at schools around the country, including Cornell, the Dayton Art Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, and Pennsylvania State University. In 1970, he taught Native American studies and art at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He remained close to Minnesota until his death in 2000.