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Item Ships From: Arizona
WOP 2 - 00646
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category

2010s Land Arizona - Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Dyrad Study #1
By Jim Waid
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contai...
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Untitled 1 of 2
By Ricardo Mazal
Located in Phoenix, AZ
charcoal and graphite on paper and canvas
Category

1990s Minimalist Arizona - Art

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Charcoal, Graphite

WOP 2 - 00648
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category

2010s Romantic Arizona - Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Night Vision
By Nellie King Solomon
Located in Phoenix, AZ
glass beads, medium, and Mylar mounted on aluminum
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Glass, Mylar, Mixed Media

OX 101
By Daniel Brice
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on paper In his abstract paintings and prints, Daniel Brice explores both the physicality and the intellectual and emotional resonance of color. Based in sun-drenched southern ...
Category

2010s Minimalist Arizona - Art

Materials

Paper, Oil, Archival Paper

11.22.02
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on silk Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended the...
Category

Early 2000s Color-Field Arizona - Art

Materials

Silk, Wax, Oil

Pouring Down, Original Signed Contemporary Abstract Blue and White Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Pouring Down, Original Signed Contemporary Abstract Blue and White Painting 10" x 8" x 0.5" (HxWxD) Acrylic on Canvas Hand-signed by the artist...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Aquarium
By Dion Johnson
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas b. 1975, Bellaire, OH. Dion Johnson’s paintings combine and explore dynamic opposites: expansiveness and compression, surface and depth, and darkness and light. G...
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Homesick 4
By Hector Ruiz
Located in Phoenix, AZ
monoprint with drypoint and chine colle; unframed image size: 10 x 7 inches
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Arizona - Art

Materials

Drypoint, Monoprint

ASCENDING HELIX
By Lyle London
Located in Tempe, AZ
ASCENDING HELIX exhibits a spiral geometry and can be suspended from a ceiling or ground mounted to a tension bar and floor base. The two types of textured dichroic glass change co...
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Stainless Steel

Untitled F (diptych)
By George Thiewes
Located in Phoenix, AZ
charcoal on paper 20 x 15.5 x 1.5 inches each (framed) In the fields of sculpture and drawing, George Thiewes creates sharp, angular work with a focus on the interaction of light a...
Category

2010s Minimalist Arizona - Art

Materials

Charcoal, Archival Paper

WOP 2 - 00650
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category

2010s Romantic Arizona - Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

OX
By Daniel Brice
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on canvas Daniel Brice’s paintings are composed using a minimal rectilinear language, divided into planes of color implying vast spatial landscapes. His work references the l...
Category

2010s Color-Field Arizona - Art

Materials

Oil

#5301
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and gold leaf on porcelain tile Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of li...
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Gold, Gold Leaf

Untitled 11
By George Thiewes
Located in Phoenix, AZ
charcoal and pearl paint on paper 52.25 x 25.25 x 1.5 inches framed In the fields of sculpture and drawing, George Thiewes creates sharp, angular work with a focus on the interacti...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Arizona - Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Charcoal

Arise
By Bryan David Griffith
Located in Phoenix, AZ
smoke from an open flame accumulated in encaustic beeswax on panel b. 1975 My work explores the idea that dualities—light and darkness, life and death, object and emptiness, forest ...
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Wax, Encaustic, Panel

Untitled 13
By George Thiewes
Located in Phoenix, AZ
charcoal and pearl paint on paper 25 x 24 x 1.5 inches framed In the fields of sculpture and drawing, George Thiewes creates sharp, angular work with a focus on the interaction of ...
Category

2010s Minimalist Arizona - Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Charcoal

Amethyst Haze
By Jim Waid
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contain...
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Introduction (blue)
By Dion Johnson
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on paper, framed b. 1975, Bellaire, OH Dion Johnson’s paintings combine and explore dynamic opposites: expansiveness and compression, surface and depth, and darkness and l...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Arizona - Art

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper

1.30.98
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
watercolor on Arches, framed Throughout Mala Breuer’s career she completed well over 400 watercolors and works on paper that preceded each and every one of her large works on canv...
Category

1990s Minimalist Arizona - Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Traces
By Bryan David Griffith
Located in Phoenix, AZ
smoke from an open flame accumulated in encaustic beeswax on panel b. 1975 My work explores the idea that dualities—light and darkness, life and dea...
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Wax, Encaustic, Panel, Wood Panel

My Inner Beat
By Louise Blyton
Located in Phoenix, AZ
pigment on linen signature, title, year, "Linder Blue" on back Louise Blyton is a reductive artist exploring the romance of raw linen and dry pigment. The artist’s geometrically sh...
Category

2010s Minimalist Arizona - Art

Materials

Linen, Paint, Pigment

Untitled 8
By George Thiewes
Located in Phoenix, AZ
charcoal and pearl paint on paper 25 x 24 x 1.5 inches framed In the fields of sculpture and drawing, George Thiewes creates sharp, angular work with a focus on the interaction of ...
Category

2010s Minimalist Arizona - Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Charcoal

WOP 2 - 00642
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category

2010s Romantic Arizona - Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

WOP 2 - 00667
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed signed lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated wi...
Category

2010s Minimalist Arizona - Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Listing Panes
By Jake Fischer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on panel b. 1985, Phoenix, AZ Jake Fischer, born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, graduated with a Master of Fine Art from Arizona State University in Drawing and Painting. Whil...
Category

2010s Minimalist Arizona - Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Wood Panel

WOP 2 - 00643
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category

2010s Romantic Arizona - Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

#5298
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and gold leaf on porcelain tile Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of li...
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Gold, Gold Leaf

Downward
By Jake Fischer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on panel b. 1985, Phoenix, AZ Jake Fischer, born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, graduated with a Master of Fine Art from Arizona State University in Drawing and Painting. Whil...
Category

2010s Contemporary Arizona - Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Wood Panel

Storm Over Nebraska
By George Thiewes
Located in Phoenix, AZ
charcoal and pearl paint on paper 21.25 x 52.25 x 1.5 inches framed In the fields of sculpture and drawing, George Thiewes creates sharp, angular work with a focus on the interact...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Arizona - Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Charcoal, Automotive Paint

6.15.96
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on gessoed linen Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attende...
Category

1990s Color-Field Arizona - Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Linen, Acrylic

#5297
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and gold leaf on porcelain tile Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of li...
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Gold, Gold Leaf

OX 85
By Daniel Brice
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on paper In his abstract paintings and prints, Daniel Brice explores both the physicality and the intellectual and emotional resonance of color. Based in sun-drenched southern ...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Arizona - Art

Materials

Paper, Oil, Archival Paper

WOP 2 - 00686
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22 x 30 inches signed lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veil...
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

WOP 2 - 00655
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.75 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint...
Category

2010s Romantic Arizona - Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

WOP 2 - 00652
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category

2010s Romantic Arizona - Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Desertscape #4, Signed Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Landscape Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Desertscape #4, Original Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Landscape Painting, 2022 14" x 17" (HxW) Acrylic on Paper Hand-signed and dated by the artist. This abstract expressionist work by artist Simona Gocan...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Arizona - Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

WOP 2 - 00651
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category

2010s Romantic Arizona - Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

1.13.96
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas 1927 - 2017 Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she...
Category

1990s Color-Field Arizona - Art

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Oil

7.29.95
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas 1927 - 2017 Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school sh...
Category

1990s Color-Field Arizona - Art

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Oil

12.17.95
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas 1927 - 2017 Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school sh...
Category

1990s Color-Field Arizona - Art

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Oil

Penumbra 1530
By Bryan David Griffith
Located in Phoenix, AZ
accumulated smoke (carbon pigment) on paper 10 x 10 inches; image size / 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.25 inches; framed Bryan David Griffith's work explores the idea that dualities—light and ...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Arizona - Art

Materials

Paper, Other Medium

Penumbra 1529
By Bryan David Griffith
Located in Phoenix, AZ
accumulated smoke (carbon pigment) on paper 10 x 10 inches; image size / 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.25 inches; framed Bryan David Griffith's work explores the idea that dualities—light and...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Arizona - Art

Materials

Paper, Other Medium

Silla Con pie Equino
By Alonso Mateo
Located in Phoenix, AZ
gilded wood and fabric For over a decade Mateo has focused his work on the analysis of the rites and symbols of power, the high classes, aristocracy, and royalty. He is known amo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Arizona - Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Mao-Wei Wei
By Dominique Blain
Located in Phoenix, AZ
inkjet on paper edition 4 of 15 For over thirty years Dominique Blain has examined and addressed the links between relationships of domination, such as racism, mass indoctrinatio...
Category

2010s Conceptual Arizona - Art

Materials

Inkjet

11.2.96
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on linen Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended th...
Category

1990s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Wax, Oil

DANCER 6
By Lyle London
Located in Tempe, AZ
DANCER 6 is one of a series of dancing figures in a style best described as anthropomorphic abstraction. The piece shown is 10 feet high and is made of aluminum with an automotive b...
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Metal

Laela (7/10)
By Dominique Blain
Located in Phoenix, AZ
inkjet print on paper, framed edition 7 of 10 For over thirty years Dominique Blain has examined and addressed the links between relationships of domination, such as racism, mass...
Category

Early 2000s Arizona - Art

Materials

Paper, Inkjet

DANCER 1
By Lyle London
Located in Tempe, AZ
DANCER 1 is published in an edition of 12 in brushed bronze or nickel (bronze shown in photos). It is part of a series of Dancing abstractions I have created over several years, som...
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Bronze

SOMEONE, Original Signed Contemporary Minimal Abstract Painting on Canvas
Located in Boston, MA
SOMEONE, Original Signed Contemporary Minimal Abstract Painting, 2022 20" x 20" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Acrylic on Gallery-Wrapped Canvas Hand-signed by the artist in verso. There is a calm simplicity to this abstract work by artist KR Moehr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

ORACLE OF WIND
By Lyle London
Located in Tempe, AZ
How do you visualize wind? ORACLE of WIND is my answer using the lyrical power of sculpture. This is a limited edition and available in other materials such as bronze and aluminum,...
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Stainless Steel

Siesta by Lon Megargee 1929, Archival Pigmrnt Print
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Tequila Siesta Lon Megargee Archival Pigment Print 100% 300 gram cotton rag paper Size: 22.5 x 27 inches Paper size: 24 x 28.5 inches Creator of the iconic logo for the Stetson Hat Company, " Last Drop From his Stetson", still in use today. Fine Art Estate of Lon Megargee At age 13, Lon Megargee came to Phoenix in 1896 following the death of his father in Philadelphia. For several years he resided with relatives while working at an uncle’s dairy farm and at odd jobs. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898 – 1899 in order to attend drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Back in Phoenix in 1899, he decided at the age of 16 to try to make his living as a cowboy. Lon moved to the cow country of Wickenburg where he was hired by Tex Singleton’s Bull Ranch. He later joined the Three Bar Ranch . . . and, after a few years, was offered a job by Billy Cook...
Category

1920s Arizona - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Wreathe
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Arizona - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Rain is a Gift
By Jered Sprecher
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Arizona - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hopi by Lon Megargee, Original Signed Block Print ca. 1920s
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Title: Hopi ca. 1920s Artist: Lon Megargee Medium: Block Print Size: 11 x 11 inches (Sight Measurement) SHIPPING CHARGES INCLUDE SHIPPING, PACKAGING & INSURANCE Creator of Stetson's hat logo "Last Drop from his Hat" Image of Lon Megargee not included in purchase. Lon Megargee 1883 - 1960 At age 13, Lon Megargee came to Phoenix in 1896 following the death of his father in Philadelphia. For several years he resided with relatives while working at an uncle’s dairy farm and at odd jobs. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898 – 1899 in order to attend drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Back in Phoenix in 1899, he decided at the age of 16 to try to make his living as a cowboy. Lon moved to the cow country of Wickenburg, Arizona where he was hired by Tex Singleton’s Bull Ranch. He later joined the Three Bar R. . . and after a few years, was offered a job by Billy Cook of the T.T. Ranch near New River. By 1906, Megargee had learned his trade well enough to be made foreman of Cook’s outfit. Never shy about taking risks, Lon soon left Cook to try his own hand at ranching. He partnered with a cowpuncher buddy, Tom Cavness, to start the El Rancho Cinco Uno at New River. Unfortunately, the young partners could not foresee a three-year drought that would parch Arizona, costing them their stock and then their hard-earned ranch. Breaking with his romantic vision of cowboy life, Megargee finally turned to art full time. He again enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art and then the Los Angeles School of Art and Design during 1909 – 1910. The now well-trained student took his first trip to paint “en plein air” (outdoors) to the land of Hopi and Navajo peoples in northern Arizona. After entering paintings from this trip in the annual Territorial Fair at Phoenix, in 1911, he surprisingly sold his first oil painting to a major enterprise – the Santa Fe Railroad . . . Lon received $50 for “Navajos Watching the Santa Fe Train.” He soon sold the SFRR ten paintings over the next two years. For forty years the railroad was his most important client, purchasing its last painting from him in 1953. In a major stroke of good fortune during his early plein-air period, Megargee had the opportunity to paint with premier artist, William R. Leigh (1866 – 1955). Leigh furnished needed tutoring and counseling, and his bright, impressionistic palette served to enhance the junior artist’s sense of color and paint application. In a remarkable display of unabashed confidence and personable salesmanship, Lon Megargee, at age 30, forever linked his name with Arizona art history. Despite the possibility of competition from better known and more senior artists, he persuaded Governor George Hunt and the Legislature in 1913 to approve 15 large, historic and iconic murals for the State Capitol Building in Phoenix. After completing the murals in 1914, he was paid the then princely sum of roughly $4000. His Arizona statehood commission would launch Lon to considerable prominence at a very early point in his art career. Following a few years of art schooling in Los Angeles, and several stints as an art director with movie studios, including Paramount, Megargee turned in part to cover illustrations for popular Western story magazines in the 1920s. In the 1920s, as well, Lon began making black and white prints of Western types and of genre scenes from woodblocks. These prints he generally signed and sold singly. In 1933, he published a limited edition, signed and hard-cover book (about 250 copies and today rare)containing a group of 28 woodblock images. Titled “The Cowboy Builds a Loop,” the prints are noteworthy for strong design, excellent draftsmanship, humanistic and narrative content, and quality. Subjects include Southwest Indians and cowboys, Hispanic men and women, cattle, horses, burros, pioneers, trappers, sheepherders, horse traders, squaw men and ranch polo players. Megargee had a very advanced design sense for simplicity and boldness which he demonstrated in how he used line and form. His strengths included outstanding gestural (action) art and strong figurative work. He was superb in design, originality and drawing, as a study of his prints in the Hays collection reveals. In 1944, he published a second group of Western prints under the same title as the first. Reduced to 16 images from the original 28 subjects, and slightly smaller, Lon produced these prints in brown ink on a heavy, cream-colored stock. He designed a sturdy cardboard folio to hold each set. For the remainder of his life, Lon had success selling these portfolios to museum stores, art fairs and shows, and to the few galleries then selling Western art. Drawing on real working and life experiences, Lon Megargee had a comprehensive knowledge, understanding and sensitivity for Southwestern subject matter. Noted American modernist, Lew Davis...
Category

1920s American Impressionist Arizona - Art

Materials

Woodcut

DERVISH
By Lyle London
Located in Tempe, AZ
Dervish is a nylon 3D print with a color changing magenta-jade coating. It is tensioned between two poles of a 1/4" solid stainless tension bar in a similar manner to a bowstring. ...
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Plastic

SPIRALING DISC
By Lyle London
Located in Tempe, AZ
Tensioeds to a stainless steel semicircular tension bar this nylon 3D print exhibits the complex wire mesh geometry of a helical disc. The piece is an edition of 20 and is availabl...
Category

2010s Abstract Arizona - Art

Materials

Stainless Steel

The War Bonnet by Lon Megargee
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Lon Megargee 1883-1960 "The War Bonnet" Wood block print Signed: original pencil signature, lower right Image size: 11 x 11 inches Frame size 22 x 22 inches Creator of Stetson's hat logo "Last Drop from his Hat" Lon Megargee 1883 - 1960 At age 13, Lon Megargee came to Phoenix in 1896 following the death of his father in Philadelphia. For several years he resided with relatives while working at an uncle’s dairy farm and at odd jobs. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898 – 1899 in order to attend drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Back in Phoenix in 1899, he decided at the age of 16 to try to make his living as a cowboy. Lon moved to the cow country of Wickenburg, Arizona where he was hired by Tex Singleton’s Bull Ranch. He later joined the Three Bar R. . . and after a few years, was offered a job by Billy Cook of the T.T. Ranch near New River. By 1906, Megargee had learned his trade well enough to be made foreman of Cook’s outfit. Never shy about taking risks, Lon soon left Cook to try his own hand at ranching. He partnered with a cowpuncher buddy, Tom Cavness, to start the El Rancho Cinco Uno at New River. Unfortunately, the young partners could not foresee a three-year drought that would parch Arizona, costing them their stock and then their hard-earned ranch. Breaking with his romantic vision of cowboy life, Megargee finally turned to art full time. He again enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art and then the Los Angeles School of Art and Design during 1909 – 1910. The now well-trained student took his first trip to paint “en plein air” (outdoors) to the land of Hopi and Navajo peoples in northern Arizona. After entering paintings from this trip in the annual Territorial Fair at Phoenix, in 1911, he surprisingly sold his first oil painting to a major enterprise – the Santa Fe Railroad . . . Lon received $50 for “Navajos Watching the Santa Fe Train.” He soon sold the SFRR ten paintings over the next two years. For forty years the railroad was his most important client, purchasing its last painting from him in 1953. In a major stroke of good fortune during his early plein-air period, Megargee had the opportunity to paint with premier artist, William R. Leigh (1866 – 1955). Leigh furnished needed tutoring and counseling, and his bright, impressionistic palette served to enhance the junior artist’s sense of color and paint application. In a remarkable display of unabashed confidence and personable salesmanship, Lon Megargee, at age 30, forever linked his name with Arizona art history. Despite the possibility of competition from better known and more senior artists, he persuaded Governor George Hunt and the Legislature in 1913 to approve 15 large, historic and iconic murals for the State Capitol Building in Phoenix. After completing the murals in 1914, he was paid the then princely sum of roughly $4000. His Arizona statehood commission would launch Lon to considerable prominence at a very early point in his art career. Following a few years of art schooling in Los Angeles, and several stints as an art director with movie studios, including Paramount, Megargee turned in part to cover illustrations for popular Western story magazines in the 1920s. In the 1920s, as well, Lon began making black and white prints of Western types and of genre scenes from woodblocks. These prints he generally signed and sold singly. In 1933, he published a limited edition, signed and hard-cover book (about 250 copies and today rare)containing a group of 28 woodblock images. Titled “The Cowboy Builds a Loop,” the prints are noteworthy for strong design, excellent draftsmanship, humanistic and narrative content, and quality. Subjects include Southwest Indians and cowboys, Hispanic men and women, cattle, horses, burros, pioneers, trappers, sheepherders, horse traders, squaw men and ranch polo players. Megargee had a very advanced design sense for simplicity and boldness which he demonstrated in how he used line and form. His strengths included outstanding gestural (action) art and strong figurative work. He was superb in design, originality and drawing, as a study of his prints in the Hays collection reveals. In 1944, he published a second group of Western prints under the same title as the first. Reduced to 16 images from the original 28 subjects, and slightly smaller, Lon produced these prints in brown ink on a heavy, cream-colored stock. He designed a sturdy cardboard folio to hold each set. For the remainder of his life, Lon had success selling these portfolios to museum stores, art fairs and shows, and to the few galleries then selling Western art. Drawing on real working and life experiences, Lon Megargee had a comprehensive knowledge, understanding and sensitivity for Southwestern subject matter. Noted American modernist, Lew...
Category

Early 20th Century American Impressionist Arizona - Art

Materials

Woodcut

Pulse
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed Dimensions: 21.5h x 26w in Alexander Stolin, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic), where he received ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Arizona - Art

Materials

Oil, Plexiglass

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