Maggie
Lemon was a Chickasaw Indian and great granddaughter of famous Chief
Levi Colbert. She attended a Federal Indian boarding school for
girls where she received her first art training. She then moved to
Texas and attended the College of Industrial Arts in Denton and
graduated in 1917. She studied art with Frank Klepper in McKinney.
She soon married an Austin man and was known to have done
watercolors with New Mexico Indian themes after her marriage to
Morris S. Schwartz who headed Western Union in Austin in the 1920’s.
She continued her art training in Austin and received a Masters
Degree from Texas. She studied with Samuel Gideon and Sadie Cavitt
Gideon then with George Elmer Browne Her watercolors were to
reflect the influences of their training. She became actively
involved in the Austin art community for the next four decades and
exhibited in the State Fair Art Competitions in Dallas, at the Waco
Cotton Palace Exhibition in 1927, in the Texas Pan-American
Exhibition of 1937 at Fair Park, and with ongoing exhibitions with
the Texas Fine Arts Association across the state. She was known for
her floral watercolors and Austin landscapes and cityscapes. When
her husband
died in 1970 she moved back to Oklahoma where she remained till her
death.