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Jimmy Swinnerton still active at 91

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Order Number	00094513
Title	Jimmy Swinnerton still active at 91
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 88
Date	1966
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 18 cm.
Notes	Photograph was eidted for publication purposes.
Historical Data	James Guilford Swinnerton (1875-1974) was an American cartoonist and landscape painter of Southwest deserts. While still a teenager, he began his career as a staff cartoonist at William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. After having been diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1906, Swinnerton moved to Colton in Riverside County. He ended up staying in Southern California and eventually keeping a home there and another in Arizona; in the early 1940s, he lived at 1261 North Laurel Avenue in Los Angeles. From about 1920 to 1965, he painted desert scenes and kept a studio in the Coachella Valley near Palm Springs, where he died at age 98.
Description	Photograph caption dated November 13, 1966, Swinnerton's birthdate, reads, "In deep concentration painting a desert landscape."
Subject	Swinnerton, Jimmy,--1875-1974. Artists--United States. Cartoonists--United States. Painting. Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection