At sunset on Tuesday in New York, Briand Morrison stood on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with four generations of his family. They ranged from his mother, the artist Hazel Belvo, to his grandchildren, some of whom had traveled from Sweden.

Behind them, a giant banner hung between the museum’s stone columns: “The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York,” printed over an image of an abstract painting glowing red, caramel and teal.

Briand Morrison is the son of George Morrison, the renowned Minnesota Ojibwe artist who died in 2000.

“I think he’d be happy, just so, so happy,” Morrison says. “I think he would have been truly satisfied. It was his dream to come to New York, he told that to me, because this is where the art was.”

A few dozen of the artist’s friends, family and

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