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James Guilford Swinnerton
(1875-1974)
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"Desert Cottonwood"
Oil on Canvas
30 x 30 inches
c. 1930
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Painter, illustrator, cartoonist. Born in Eureka, California on November 13, 1875. Swinnerton was raised in Santa Clara and began his art studies at the San Francisco School of Design under Emil Carlsen. At 17 he was employed as a cartoonist for the SF Examiner and then moved to New York City where he continued as a cartoonist for Hearst newspapers. He became nationally famous for such cartoons as Little Jimmy, Canyon Kiddies, and Little Tiger. Ill with tuberculosis, in 1903 he moved to Palm Springs, California to recuperate. The desert restored his health and inspired him to become a landscape painter. His early works were often signed with a large reed S. His best works were produced in the 1920’s. He maintained a home in Palo Alto while traveling throughout the Southwest painting desert scenes. He made frequent trips to the Navajo country and Swinnerton Arch in Monument Valley is named for him. Swinnerton died in Palm Springs on September 5, 1974.
Member: California Art Club; Bohemian Club (President 1929); Academy of Western Painters.
Exhibited: Stendahls, Los Angeles, 1920s; Bohemian Club, 1922;San Francisco Art Association, 1923; Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939.
Works held: Gardena High School, California.
California Design, 1910; American Art Annual 1919; Who's Who in American Art 1940; Who's Who on the Pacific Coast 1949; Southern California Artists; Artists of the American West; Fieldings Dictionary of American Painters and Sculptors; West as Art; Southern California Artists 1890-1940.
Source:
Hughes, Edan M. Artists In California 1786-1940. 3rd ed. Vol. 1. Sacramento: Crocker, Art Museum, 2002. N. pag. 2 vols. Print
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