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          Lon Megargee

          American painter (1883–1960)

          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.

          Early life

          Megargee was born in 1883 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1][2][3] He lost his father at 13, and he spent his adolescence with his uncle, rancher Cornelius Borden, in Arizona.[3] One of his cousins, Edwin Megargee, was a painter.[3]

          Megargee studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Los Angeles School of Art and Design.[1][2]

          Career

          Megargee first worked on his uncle's ranch as a teenager, and later as a cowboy in Wickenburg, Arizona.[3] He moved to Phoenix, where he was a firefighter and a police officer.[3]

          Megargee did paintings of the Arizona landscape, Native Americans, and cowboys.[2] He did 15