April 17, 2024
JAMES SWINNERTON, LISTED CALIFORNIA, DESERT LANDSCAPE WITH SAGE & MESQUITE, NR
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JAMES SWINNERTON (LISTED CALIFORNIA ARTIST1875-1974). ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING. DESERT LANDSCAPE WITH SAGE AND MESQUITE, 12" x 16" oil on canvasboard (framed size: 18" x 22") signed lower right: Swinnerton. WE'RE LETTING THE BIDDERS DECIDE WHAT THEY WANT TO PAY, NO RESERVE!This biography from the Archives of AskART: Born in Eureka, California, James Swinnerton became a famous painter of desert landscapes following a successful career as an illustrator and cartoonist. His mother died when he was young, and his father, the son of a Forty-Niner at Dutch Flat, started the newspaper, the Humboldt Star in Humboldt County and then became a judge in Stockton. Swinnerton was raised by an uncle in Santa Clara and first took art classes at the California School of Art with Emil Carlsen. He ignored many assignments and did caricatures of his teachers. He went to work at age 17 for the San Francisco Examiner where he became a favorite of owner/ publisher William Randolph Hearst, who was impressed by the caricatures. Swinnerton did cartoons of sporting events and for weather forecasts drew comic bears, pantomimes of the weather, which became so popular that they were the first syndicated comic strips. When Hearst, went to New York to start a Sunday supplement, he joined him and there launched the comic strips, Little Jimmy and Little Tiger. With
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