Morris Rippel

Morris Rippel was a painter whose realistic representations of the Southwest are in the collections of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Denver Art Museum and in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles collections.

In 1979. Rippel received the prestigious Prix de West – National Academy of Western Arts award for his egg tempera work titled Bluebirds, making it part of the Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum’s permanent collection. He also received several gold and silver medal awards for selected media from the academy.