original lon megargee woodblock "horse traders" cowboy art southwest Arizona

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original  hand done art woodblock by Lon Megargee  title is "the horse traders" and is a good strong impression and very clean. Great image by a highly desirable cowboy artist form Arizona c. 1920 part of a group of 6 recently discovered and never exposed to light.
Lon Megargee
(1883–1960) was an American painter from
Arizona
. He did paintings of the Arizona landscape, Native Americans, and cowboys. His artwork is displayed at the
Arizona State Capitol
.
Megargee was born in 1883 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He lost his father at 13, and he spent his adolescence with his uncle, rancher Cornelius Borden, in Arizona. One of his cousins,
Edwin Megargee
, was a painter.
Megargee studied painting at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
and the Los Angeles School of Art and Design.
Megargee first worked on his uncle's ranch as a teenager, and later as a cowboy in
Wickenburg, Arizona
. He moved to Phoenix, where he was a firefighter and a police officer.
Megargee did paintings of the Arizona landscape, Native Americans, and cowboys. He did 15 paintings for the newly built
Arizona State Capitol
in 1913-1914, and three more in 1934.
He designed advertisements for the A-1 Brewing Company in 1948-1951. He exhibited his paintings at the
Grand Central Art Galleries
in New York City in 1956.
[3]
Megargee was called "Arizona’s first cowboy artist" by
True West Magazine
.
Megargee died in 1960 in
Cottonwood, Arizona
, at age 77
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All 6 will be listed some in diferent catagories............  ***Please check our other listings for similar items****** xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx B  and T
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