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James Swinnerton was a well known cartoonist who came to the American Southwest expecting to die from either tuberculosis or alchoholism in 1906.  Instead, he experienced a full recovery from both afflictions. He spent the next fifty years painting the desert which he believed saved him from certain death.

This book contains 23 color images of Swinnerton's paintings and 12 color images of the original art work for his beloved Canyon Kiddies cartoon.  Also includes ten never before published B&W photos of Swinnerton and an essay by Gary Fillmore

Size: 11" x 8"

Softcover

50 pages, 42 color plates, 11 B&W photos, 15 sketches (scroll below for a sample of the book)

Publisher: Blue Coyote Gallery (August 2009)

Swinnerton will be one of the featured artists at

The Greatest Earth on Show Exhibtion at the Phippen Museum, Prescott Arizona-Opening October 2009

and

The Picerne Grand Canyon Collection at the Kolb Studio, Grand Canyon Village-April through June, 2010 (Details forthcoming)