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James Swinnerton was a well known cartoonist who came to the American Southwest expecting to die from either tuberculosis or alcoholism 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.

Author: Gary Fillmore

Size: 11" x 8"

Soft cover

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 following museum exhibitions

The Picerne Collection of Arizona Landmark Art 

at

Phippen Museum, Prescott Arizona-Opening October 2011

and

Shadows on the Mesa-Aritists of the Painted Desert and Beyond

at the

Museum of Northern Arizona-February through April 2012 (Details forthcoming)