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    Sep 24, 2019 2 minutes

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    Weistling’s West

    hen he won the coveted Prix de West Purchase Award at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 2001, Morgan Weistling (born in 1964) was the youngest artist to have done so, and he earned it a second time in 2008. “My love of the Old West started when I was a boy watching books on the Old West. Forty years later I still love time-traveling back to those days and painting the stories of a time when our country was forging new trails.” Weistling [], who also has a best-selling book, , met his wife JoAnn (who paints under the name “J. Peralta”) in art school. They married in 1990 and have two daughters, Brittany and Sienna. Both JoAnn and Brittany join Morgan in exhibiting in the Autry Museum’s Masters of the American West.

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