George Ford Morris was born in St. Joseph, Missouri and was largely self-taught as a painter. However, he had studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1888 and at the Julian Academy in Paris in 1925. For a while, around 1907, he had a studio in New York on Thirty-Third Street near the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

Among the publications that Mr. Morris' illustrations appeared in were The American Horseman, Breeder's Gazette, Western Horseman, American Field, National Horseman, Arabian Horse News, Thoroughbred Record and Thoroughbred of California. He also contributed to Century, Scribners and The Spur magazines.

Morris died in Arcadia, California in 1960, after painting horses for more than seventy years.