Self-Portrait
Type:Print
Size:15.50" x 12.00"
Medium:Paper
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Block print, hand carved signature frame with hand applied french lines, Megargee logo,framed to archival standards.
Lon Megargee ART FOR SALE
1883 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1960 Cottonwood, Arizona. Known for: Cowboy genre painting, illustration, graphics.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lon Megargee, at age 13, ran away from his upper class home and went West in 1896 led by his zest for the wild and adventuresome life. There he... Read full biography
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lon Megargee, at age 13, ran away from his upper class home and went West in 1896 led by his zest for the wild and adventuresome life. There he established a reputation as a cowboy painter and illustrator with work most associated with Arizona Brewing... Read full biography
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lon Megargee, at age 13, ran away from his upper class home and went West in 1896 led by his zest for the wild and adventuresome life. There he established a reputation as a cowboy painter and illustrator with work most associated with Arizona Brewing Company ads featuring humorous aspects of cowboy life. In his youth, he worked as a free-lance cowboy, exhibition roper, poker dealer, and bronco buster in Arizona, and then went east again to study... Read full biography
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lon Megargee, at age 13, ran away from his upper class home and went West in 1896 led by his zest for the wild and adventuresome life. There he established a reputation as a cowboy painter and illustrator with work most associated with Arizona Brewing Company ads featuring humorous aspects of cowboy life. In his youth, he worked as a free-lance cowboy, exhibition roper, poker dealer, and bronco buster in Arizona, and then went east again to study art in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and to New York at the Art Students League and Pratt Institute. He returned to Arizona, living in Cave Creek, Salt River Canyon, Phoenix and the last years of his life near Sedona. His... Read full biography
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lon Megargee, at age 13, ran away from his upper class home and went West in 1896 led by his zest for the wild and adventuresome life. There he established a reputation as a cowboy painter and illustrator with work most associated with Arizona Brewing Company ads featuring humorous aspects of cowboy life. In his youth, he worked as a free-lance cowboy, exhibition roper, poker dealer, and bronco buster in Arizona, and then went east again to study art in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and to New York at the Art Students League and Pratt Institute. He returned to Arizona, living in Cave Creek, Salt River Canyon, Phoenix and the last years of his life near Sedona. His Phoenix home later became a popular hotel and dining place called the Hermosa Inn. Megargee was a ranch owner and also d... Read full biography
Lon Megargee - Art for Sale (12 available)
Bronc
Type:Print
Year:1920s
Size:8.75" x 10.00"
Medium:Woodblock
Signed:Signed Initials
Notes:
Initialed in print lower right Image size 8 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches Frame 20 x 21 inches Original saguaro rib frame, double linen mats, archival framing, UV conservation glass. Arizona artist, creator of the famous advertising brand image, "Last Drop from His Stetson" for the Stetson Hat Company
Siesta
Type:Print
Year:1920s
Size:10.75" x 12.50"
Medium:Woodblock
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Initialed lower right in print Hand carved frame with a hand tooled french mat. Archival framing
Hopi Medicine Man
Type:Drawing
Year:1910
Size:9.50" x 7.50"
Medium:Colored Pencil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Original colored pencil drawing, first image made of Hopi Medicine Man, 1910, extremely rare drawing. Lon Megargee signature logo gold frame, hand applied French lines, archival framing.
Blind Beggar, Cathedral Cuernavaca
Type:Painting
Year:1946
Size:26.00" x 30.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
The Cowboy Builds a Loop
Type:Other
Year:1933
Size:12.80" x 9.80"
Medium:Other
Signed:Front
Notes:
Very rare handmade art book by Lon Megargee with 28 images & 28 poems, letterset press, very limited printing to 500 copies. This copy is signed and dated, history by Donald Hagerty. We offer clamshell cases with the photo of Megargee and history of the origins of this rare book.
Sheepherder
Type:Print
Year:1920s
Size:13.00" x 13.00"
Medium:Woodblock
Signed:Signed
Hopi
Type:Print
Year:1920s
Size:12.50" x 12.00"
Medium:Woodblock
Signed:Lower Right
2 Lazy 2 P
Type:Print
Year:1939
Size:20.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Screenprint/Silkscreen
Signed:Signed
Notes:
Featured in "Hot Irons" by Oren Arnold and John Hale, 1940. The brand is described in chapter thirteen, page 207-208 and says, " Ed Stram, who was Arizona state veterinarian for sixteen years, fire-branded his cattle with this peculiar crest.
Arizona Hopi
Type:Painting
Year:1923
Size:3.00" x 2.25"
Medium:Casein
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Smallest, one of a kind painting by Lon Megargee
Longhorns
Type:Print/graphic art
Year:circa 1920 to 1933
Size:12.00" x 14.25"
Medium:Woodblock
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
Custom signature Lon Megargee frame, 23x25 inches, custom French mat with hand dyed panel, archival standards. Fine Art Estate of Lon Megargee. www.lonmegargee.org or www.colliergallery.com
Self Portrait
Type:Print
Year:1930s
Size:15.60" x 12.00"
Medium:Woodblock
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
Signed in print. Lon Megargee Block Print, 15 5/8 x 12 inches. Hand carved signature frame with Megargee logo, archival standards.. Fine Art Estate of Lon Megargee. www.colliergallery.com Frame shown in silver, also available in gold finish.