Merritt Mauzey (American 1898–1973) was a Texas printmaker, illustrator, and author best known for lithographs depicting the rural culture and cotton-farming communities of West Texas. Largely self-taught, he later studied etching with Frank E. Klepper and drawing with John F. Knott in Dallas. A charter member of the Lone Star Printmakers, Mauzey became recognized for his lithographic series The Last Frontier of the Cotton Farmer. In 1946, he received the first John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fine arts fellowship awarded to a Texan.