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The Dance...by Morgan Weistling
Most of artist Morgan Weistling's art depicts scenes from the mid-to-late 1800's rural American life, a time of the settling and defining values of our country. It's a not too distant past that is recognizable, but just barely. In 2001, "The Dance" made Weistling the youngest person ever to win the Prix de West Award - he also won the Nona Jean Hulsey Buyers' Choice Award- from the National Cowboy and Western Hertiage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where it is now in the museum's permanent collection. This darling slip of a girl with a white aprondances on wooden floorboards worn smooth enough to twirl barefoot. We can almost feel the vibration of the music ourselves as the men lean into the rhythm and the expression of the music in her dance step. It's been a long week of hard labor but tonight that melts away in a spirit of shared music and joy.
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