Known for realistic figurative paintings of adults and children in antique settings, Morgan Weistling was raised in Southern California. He learned to draw from his father and was strongly encouraged... Read full biography
Known for realistic figurative paintings of adults and children in antique settings, Morgan Weistling was raised in Southern California. He learned to draw from his father and was strongly encouraged by his mother who researched art schools for her son. She determined that a small school in Resuda... Read full biography
Known for realistic figurative paintings of adults and children in antique settings, Morgan Weistling was raised in Southern California. He learned to draw from his father and was strongly encouraged by his mother who researched art schools for her son. She determined that a small school in Resuda run by Fred Fixler was the best because Fixler used the old time, classical methods of traditional realism. Weistling credits Fixler with teaching him how to paint with effective methods of lighting.... Read full biography
Known for realistic figurative paintings of adults and children in antique settings, Morgan Weistling was raised in Southern California. He learned to draw from his father and was strongly encouraged by his mother who researched art schools for her son. She determined that a small school in Resuda run by Fred Fixler was the best because Fixler used the old time, classical methods of traditional realism. Weistling credits Fixler with teaching him how to paint with effective methods of lighting. For fourteen years, he worked as an illustrator of movie posters. His artist hero is Richard Schmid whom he calls a "pure artist." Also a close friend of Dan Gerhartz, Weistling realized from him he could make a living at fine art and has been highly... Read full biography
Known for realistic figurative paintings of adults and children in antique settings, Morgan Weistling was raised in Southern California. He learned to draw from his father and was strongly encouraged by his mother who researched art schools for her son. She determined that a small school in Resuda run by Fred Fixler was the best because Fixler used the old time, classical methods of traditional realism. Weistling credits Fixler with teaching him how to paint with effective methods of lighting. For fourteen years, he worked as an illustrator of movie posters. His artist hero is Richard Schmid whom he calls a "pure artist." Also a close friend of Dan Gerhartz, Weistling realized from him he could make a living at fine art and has been highly successful, painting in the loose painterly style of Joaquin Sorolla and John Singer Sargent. Source... Read full biography
Morgan Weistling - Artist Info
About Morgan Weistling: Books
Books & Publications (4)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Art of the West Guidebook of Western Artists, 2003 Edition
2003
Editors, Art of the West
80 pages
Prix de West 30th Anniversary 2003 (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Schroeder, Charles (Intro)
204 pages (color)
Art of the West Guidebook of Western Artists 2001 Edition