George Morrison's 'Landscape' on Long-Term Loan to Milwaukee Art Museum

The Milwaukee Art Museum will display George Morrison's monumental wood collage 'Landscape' (1986) in its American Wing for one year, beginning August 8, 2026. The work, on long-term loan from Art Bridges, will be installed in the Homelands gallery (K223). Morrison, an Ojibwe artist born in 1919 near Lake Superior, collected driftwood from beaches to create abstract compositions that evoke the landscape. 'Landscape' spans twelve feet and is composed entirely of found and prepared weathered wood. Morrison, associated with Abstract Expressionists like Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning, began creating wood collages in the 1960s after collecting driftwood in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He returned to Minnesota in 1970, where he gathered wood from Lake Superior shores, merging his Ojibwe heritage with modernist abstraction. The loan is part of Art Bridges' mission to expand access to American art.