Description: EXTREMELY RARE AUTHENTIC OIL PAINTING JAMES GUILFORD SWINNERTON (1875-1974) "DESERT STUDY" SIGNED CUSTOM FRAMED IN PALM DESERT (BEACH'S CUSTOM FRAMING & GALLERY) 20" X 24" STUNNING AMERICAN WEST ORIGINAL PAINTING James Guilford Swinnerton was an American cartoonist and a landscape painter of the Southwest deserts. He was known as Jimmy to some and Swinny to others. From 1907, traveling with burro, sketching pad, and sleeping in the open air, he ranged over the entire Southwest, painting the Arizona desert, Grand Canyon, and Navajo scenes as well as many California landscapes. This subject matter and lifestyle set the pattern for his career. He moved for a period to Flagstaff to be near the Navajos. Art appraiser and curator Alissa J. Anderson described Swinnerton's work as a painter after he moved to the Southwest: During this time, he began to explore unfamiliar regions of deserts of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. It was here where he first became entranced by the beauty of the desert. Like many artists, the sweeping and mysterious qualities of a dry wasteland became alluring to the young artist. Soon, the magnificence of monumental desert bluffs, dramatic shadows, and sweeping desert skies became the primary subject matter of his painting. Swinnertons early paintings were highly realist, detailed depictions of an endless landscape. His subjects often focused on the exotic contradictions of the desert, a place where the parched land coexisted with thriving beauty. Many of Swinnertons later paintings took on more minimalist qualities with a monochromatic palette of earthen tones. Often consisting of a single tree, or unadorned sand and brush, he captured the lonely, arid landscape in all its splendor. He painted desert scenes as a fine artist from about 1920 to 1965. In later years, he had a studio in the Coachella Valley near Palm Springs, and the locally published Desert Magazine expanded his renown. He also maintained a home in Pal Alto, California.
Price: 1499 USD
Location: Palm Desert, California
End Time: 2024-12-24T13:21:57.000Z
Shipping Cost: 65 USD
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Artist: James Swinnerton
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Signed By: James Swinnerton
Size: Medium
Signed: Yes
Period: Post-War (1940-1970)
Title: Desert Study
Material: Oil
Item Length: 24 in
Region of Origin: California, USA
Framing: Framed
Subject: High Desert Landscape
Type: Painting
Year of Production: circa 1950s/1960s
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 20 in
Style: Impressionism
Theme: Desert Landscape
Features: Framed, Signed
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1950-1959
