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Biography
Lon Megargee b. 1883 Pennsylvania d. 1960 Arizona At age 13 he ran away, from his upper class family, to the West working as cowboy painter, illustrator, a free-lance cowboy, exhibition roper, poker dealer, and bronco buster in Arizona; afterward going East again to study art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and to New York at the Art Students League and Pratt Institute. His first major work was a landscape series of 15 large murals for the new Capitol Building in 1912. From 1911 to 1953 there were numerous commission works for the Santa Fe Railroad. Between 1915 and 1930, he also painted in the Los Angeles area. After his death, the Saturday Evening Post had a double-page reproduction spread of his painting Cowboy's Dream. paraphrased from AskArt
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