The artist David Lemon was born in October 1945 in San Diego, California and attended schools across the US and in Guam. He graduated high school in Salt Lake City, where his family had originally settled in 1848. Lemon has always been talented in the arts winning his first art contest in the 1st grade in Rhode Island, and since has won many gold medals for his work.

Through the stories told by his father and grandparents, David developed a deep interest in the Old West. His parents encouraged him in his art, despite calls from his fifth grade teacher that young David was ignoring classroom activities and spending his time drawing cowboys and Indians.

The face of the Old West stares out from the vibrant bronze images that spill from his vision. His work, in all its gritty detail, provides a window into a time when possibilities were endless, when survival wasn't a guarantee and man lived or died by the sheer force of the human spirit.

In galleries and private collections throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and the Far East, Lemon's studies of the American Experience speak proudly and passionately of the people who toiled and sacrificed to build a new nation.

Several national magazines have reviewed and featured Lemon including Southwest Art, Western Horseman, Art of the West, and recently he was profiled in the January 2004 issue of Log Home Living. He is also a featured artist in the book A Contemporary Western Artists.

His privately commissioned bronzes stand in front of, and inside, some of the finest homes in Western United States. In 2001 one of those homes was featured on the House & Garden Television Network, in a show called “Homes across America.” In this show, David's artwork was prominently featured. He is particularly proud of a bronze he created for a Veteran's Memorial located in his home town of Ennis, in Southwest Montana.