Margaret Sale Covey Chisholm (July 6, 1909 – January 24, 1965) was an American portrait painter and muralist who painted the mural for the Livingston, Tennessee, post office as part of the WPA artist project during the Great Depression.
[4] Covey was commissioned by the Federal Art Project to paint a mural, The Newcomers, for the post office in Livingston, Tennessee, which she did in 1940.
[5] She also painted a mural at the Ferncliff Mausoleum in Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York.
In addition to working as an artist, she taught at the Rehabilitation Center in Fort Slocum.
[3] She later married Robert K. Chisholm, an architect, and made her home in Pleasantville, New York, where she gave art classes at her home and at the Pleasantville High School for adult education classes[3] Her "work is in many public and private collections.