Artist Pubs
James Swinnerton

Auction Records (390)   For Sale (2)   Bio/Info   Free Alerts  
Upcoming (1) Wanted (0) Related Artists (24) Pricing my art
Charts (6) Dealers (10) Signatures (32)
James Guilford (Jimmy) Swinnerton (1875 - 1974) was active/lived in California.  James Swinnerton is known for Desert landscape and Indian figure painting, cartoons.

Biography photo for James Guilford (Jimmy) Swinnerton
 A pioneer comic artist, James Swinnerton is most often credited in histories of the funnies for things he never did.  He never drew anything titled Little Bears and Tigers, and the feature he did draw about bears was not the first newspaper strip.  In fact, it wasnt a comic strip at all.  A talented artist, Swinnerton did, however, contribute significantly to the development of comics in the more than 60 years he worked as a cartoonist.  His most successful strip was Little Jimmy, and he's the one who introduced his friend George Herriman to the Arizona desert that became the permanent locale for Krazy Kat.  Swinnerton, too, put the desert country to good use in his own work.

James Guilford Swinnerton was born in Eureka, California, where his father was a judge, a publisher of a weekly paper, and a staunch Republican.  Swinnerton studied at the California Art School in San Francisco and went to work for the Examiner [Displaying 1000 of 18980 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 390 auction lots for James Swinnerton (of which 325 auction records sold and 1 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 2 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 10 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by James Swinnerton as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists James Swinnerton in 2 of its research Essays. James Swinnerton has 32 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for James Swinnerton available:    Conrad Buff,  Paul Grimm,  Paul Lauritz,  Clyde (Victor Clyde) Forsythe,  Gunnar Widforss,  Samuel Hyde Harris,  Clarence Keiser Hinkle,  John William Hilton,  Maynard Dixon,  Marion Ida Kavanagh Wachtel,  Carl Oscar Borg,  Anna Althea Hills,  Benjamin Chambers Brown,  Orrin Augustine White,  Dedrick Brandes Stuber,  Arthur Hill Gilbert,  Emil Kosa Jr,  Jack Wilkinson Smith,  Hanson Puthuff,  Gordon Coutts,  Milford Zornes,  Harry Wagoner,  Jean Mannheim,  Warren Eliphalet Rollins



Copyright © 1999-2024 askART.com and underlying auction houses. All Rights Reserved. Digital copying of these images and content strictly prohibited; violators will be subject to the law including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Facts about James Swinnerton

   Publications  Book References:  48
Magazine References:  1

The listed publications are derived from what askART has identified from our research for this artist and are intended as an additional tool for information. askART has derived Publications as an aid to members, but it is not necessarily a complete list.
1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for James Swinnerton
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Arizona History Through Art April 2000 Reisdorfer, Kathryn Yes
48 Book References for James Swinnerton
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Fillmore, Gary Shadows on the Mesa: Artists of the Painted Desert and Beyond 288 Yes
2010 Fillmore, Gary Canyon Magic Landmark Art from the Picerne Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 77 Yes
2009 Poulton, Donna L. and Vern G. Swanson Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts 304 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
2000 Blue, Martha Indian Trader: The Life and Times of J.L. Hubbell 356 No
2000 Editor, Spanierman Gallery Tranquil America: A Century of Painting, 1840-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Stern, Jean Painted Light: California Impressionists from the Gardena High School Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 54 Yes
1996 Horn, Maurice (editor) 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics An Illustrated Encyclopedia 414 Yes
1993 Southwest Art The Red Book Western American Price Index 126 No
1993 Stragnell, Robert Landscapes of the West
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Goulart, Ron (Editor) The Encyclopedia of American Comics From 1897 to the Present 408 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1988 Blackbeard, Bill and Martin Williams The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics 334 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Mitchem, Holly (Essay); Tray Mead (Editor) Capturing the Canyon: Artists in the Grand Canyon 42 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Davidson, Harold G Jimmy Swinnerton The Artist and His Work 160 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1984 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall Southern California Art Publication 3, Dictionary 291 No
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1983 Gibson, Dunn & Critcher A Century of California Landscapes 52 Yes
1982 Trenton, Patricia The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 197 Yes
1981 McCall, Dewitt Clinton III California Artists 1935-1956 212 Yes
1979 Editor, Laguna Beach Museum Southern California Artists 1890-1940 216 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1977 Hills, Patricia Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 194 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1973 Sheridan, Martin Classic Comics & Their Creators Life Stories of American Cartoonists 304 No
1971 Harmsen, Dorothy Harmsen's Western Americana 212 Yes
1970 Desert Art Center, Inc Treasury of Living Art A collection of the works of member artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
1968 El Paso Museum of Art The McKee Collection of Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 66 Yes
1965 Frey, Joseph (Intro) Art and Artists Desert Art Center
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
1964 Read Mullan Gallery Read Mullan Gallery of Western Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1961 Ainsworth, Ed Painters of the Desert 111 Yes
1959 Becker, Stephen Comic Art in America 387 No
1952 McCracken, Harold Portrait of the Old West 216 Yes
1951 Carlson, Raymond (Editor) Gallery of Western Paintings 86 Yes
1947 Waugh, Coulton The Comics 360 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
Top