Massachusetts-America

The echoes of the highland charge and the designs of the leather bound targe breath to the lone islands that I am Clan Morrison. The pen that hangs around my neck and the research that is applied to every work declares me an artist. One of the great art centers of the US is in Boston. Massachusetts is also known for the pilgrims and Puritans. After the first horrible winter, March 1607 Squanto greeted them with "Hello Englishmen." Then Massachusetts grabbed Plymouth and the Salem Witch trials, then Boston killed the pilgrim’s Indian friends. At least that is how the story goes. The state was over liberalized in “Community” and cried over for the Boston Marathon. I have worn a kilt. 

Massachusetts has possibly the oldest of truly American mythology. Behind everything on the Left is Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1636 and was named after Rev. John Harvard of Charlestown because the bequeathed his library to the school. Its shield was officially adopted in 1843 when President Josiah Quincy found the Overseer’s sketch from 1644 in 1836.behind everything on the other side is the Old State House which is on the site of the 1657 Town House which burned in 1711. A visors galley was added to Representatives Hall in 1766 making the first average observer legislative debate. Outside the balcony where the Declaration of Independence was first proclaimed is where the Boston Massacre took place. It was the Boston’s city hall from 1830 to 1841. Everything is on a tea crate from the Boston Tea party in Boston harbor. The battle club facing left is of a Wampanoag leader. These are the Indians of the Thanksgiving story. These are the other Praying Indians are the Wampanoag who were converted by the pilgrims. The rest died in King Phillip’s War or fled to Canada. The one facing left is a shillelagh for the Irish immigrants. Impaled in the crate is a whaling harpoon for the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The state was a great whaling port from 1672 to mid-20^th century. The pendent on the necklaces on the shillelagh is for the Gloucester Fisherman’s Memorial. On the harbor side of the memorial it says “THEY THAT GO DOWNTOTHE SEA IN SHIPS 1623-1923.” It is to honor the tercentennial of the city and those who died at sea. The city was shown on the show Wicked Tuna. The skull is for the ax murder at Lizzie Borden House which is said to be haunted. On the bottom edge on the right side is cranberries. Cranberries weer first officially havested  by Native Americans in 1500’s. The first million barral state’s crop was 1953. Some of the states vines have produced for more than 150 years old. It is 8” x 10,” drawn with pencil and white charcoal and completed recently.

   The name of this piece is Oak, is 9” x 12” and drawn with ink October 2013. This is from some one’s front yard in Indiana across the street from a corn field. This was from my first year as an artist the month my mom died.  If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.