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Title
Desert painter Jimmy Swinnerton
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1964
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
James Guilford Swinnerton (1875-1974) was an American cartoonist and landscape painter of Southwest deserts. While still a teenager, he began his career as a staff cartoonist at William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. After having been diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1906, Swinnerton moved to Colton in Riverside County. He ended up staying in Southern California and eventually keeping a home there and another in Arizona; in the early 1940s, he lived at 1261 North Laurel Avenue in Los Angeles. From about 1920 to 1965, he painted desert scenes and kept a studio in the Coachella Valley near Palm Springs, where he died at age 98.
Photograph caption dated November 12, 1964 reads, "He will observe his 90th birthday with an art display."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00094512
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 88
CARL0005025441
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29059
Subject
Swinnerton, Jimmy,--1875-1974
Artists--United States
Cartoonists--United States
Deserts in art
Landscape paintings
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Time Period
1961-1970

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