User:Jonart/Montana Morrison

We lost an important artist and friend this week, Montana Morrison. She embodied "The Art Spirit" that Robert Henri wrote about in his 1923 classic. She was a driving force in the arts in Chicago, and then later in our local town of Red Bluff, CA. I was fortunate to have met and talked with her on several occasions, and the conversations were full of laughter and reminiscences of Chicago, artists that we knew, and ideas for various art projects. Montana always inspired me. She always wanted to have her own museum and was able to realize that dream in Red Bluff, a couple of years ago. She had a tremendous range in her art, from total abstraction to orientalism to portraiture to "Montana Pop". Her personna was always "bigger than life" and her memory will be a "Celebration of Life". John N. Stewart