JAMES SWINNERTON

was a California oil painter who also worked in southern Utah during the 1903-05 period. Swinnerton made his first visit to Utah in a brief stopover while on his honeymoon in 1897. This was captured by A.H. Dutton (q.v.) in one of his early Salt Lake City newspaper cartoons. He was among the best of the group known as the "Palm Springs" desert landscape painters, which included Louis Heinzman. (b. November 13; d. September 5)

Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 247.