Allan Houser and George Morrison are two phenomenal artist that arose after the World War II era. Houser and Morrison were two artist that transformed the idea of Native American art into the modern era. These two worked from different parts of the country focusing on their native surroundings of where they originate from. Allan Houser was from the Southwest part of America while George Morrison originated from the Eastern coast of America. Both of these artist came from rural backgrounds growing up. For example, Morrison was raised in Anishinaabe which was a fishing village on the shore of Lake Superior, while Houser was raised on a farm near Apache, Oklahoma. Houser and Morrison are very similar but also different in certain aspect of their …show more content…
After studying at the Minneapolis School of Art Morrison studied at the Art Students League in New York City. After this he was able to attend the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris and the University of Aix-Marseilles in France.
Morrison and Houser had many of the same types of themes for their artworks, they were just portrayed in different ways having different characteristics. For Example, in Houser’s landscape painting Herding Sheep (1953), it resembles how the ways of life used to be instead of focusing directly on the landscape itself. Houser was not professionally trained as seen in the unnaturalistic details throughout the painting. However, his goal was not to make his paintings look natural, the purpose was to not lose the historic background of the Native American people.
Meanwhile in George Morrison’s landscape painting Mount Maude (1942), the painting is very naturalistic with exquisite attention to detail. Morrison focused more on what his surroundings looked like than the historical meaning of the picture. He had many year of training as seen with his smooth brush strokes in the foliage throughout the densely wooded