Barbershop (The)

First and foremost, frontier living was about family. Cowboys, gamblers, and gunfighters didn’t settle the West, families did. Drifters didn’t create homesteads, establish communities, or build churches, schools and towns. As families grew and prospered, so did the country.

This family and community experience of self-reliance and mutual dependence still defines our culture. Embracing and celebrating this way of life lay at the heart of Morgan Weistling’s art. The Barbershop is not only an artful glance into our collective past but a distant mirror reflecting the best of what we see in ourselves.

The Barbershop was a featured work at the 2018 Prix de West at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.