Research Catalog

Title

Native modernism : the art of George Morrison and Allan Houser / edited by Truman T. Lowe.

Author

Morrison, George, 1919-2000

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian ; Seattle : in association with University of Washington Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Houser, Allan, 1914-1994
• Lowe, Truman, 1944-
• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)

Description

128 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Summary

Showcases the work of twentieth-century Native American artists George Morrison and Allan Houser, featuring reproductions of their paintings, drawings, and sculptures, and discussing their work in the context of contemporary art, Native American art history, and cultural identity.

Subject

• Morrison, George, 1919-2000 > Exhibitions
• Houser, Allan, 1914-1994 > Exhibitions
• 1900-1999
• Ojibwa artists > Exhibitions
• Indian art > North America > 20th century

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2004-Sept. 12, 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-127).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword : The art of contradiction / W. Richard West, Jr. -- Introduction : The emergence of Native modernism / Truman T. Lowe -- George Morrison : Anishinaabe expressionism at Red Rock / Gerald Vizenor -- The testament of Allan Houser / N. Scott Momaday -- Different paths, tracks worth following / Gail Tremblay.

ISBN

0295984678 (softcover)

LCCN

^^2004007584

OCLC

54865413

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library