A Unique Collection of Artwork by Jimmy Swinnerton

About William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art

H OUSTON’S T EXAS- C ENTERED G ALLERY

William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, originally established in 2006 in Houston, Texas, is dedicated to the promotion of

premier Texas artists of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing particularly on historically significant artists active in the state during the period of 1900‒1975.

The gallery showcases many of the state’s most accomplished and recognized talents, all of whom have significant

connections to Texas and have evidenced the highest standards of quality in their work, training, and professionalism. In addition to its general focus on Early Texas Art, the gallery places special emphasis on the rediscovery and presentation

of midcentury works by Houston and South Texas artists. William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art is the foremost provider of

Texas Modern Art, which includes midcentury masters and pioneering expressionists working in the state. The gallery also

represents a dynamic group of contemporary artists, known as the Contemporary Texas Regionalists, actively showing their works in annual gallery exhibitions as well as traveling exhibitions throughout the state.

William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art is a comprehensive gallery offering fine art appraisals, consultation, collections

management, brokerage, and sales services. The gallery exhibits artists working in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, works on paper, and photography. In order to promote interest and broaden knowledge of earlier Texas art,

William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art supports related gallery talks, community events, scholarly research, and publications.

Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm and other times by appointment.

Gallery Contacts:

William Reaves, President william@reavesart.com

Sarah Foltz, Director sarah@reavesart.com

Offering an Outstanding Collection of Southwest Landscape Art William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art is pleased to offer a significant collection of 81 pleinair paintings by Arizona artist, James (Jimmy) Swinnerton (1875-1974). These works beautifully depict the landscape and environs of the American Southwest, and were executed on-site during outdoor sketch trips undertaken by the artist during the 1950s and 1960s.

All works are painted on canvas board, and are generally 12 x 16 in dimension. Each is signed by the artist and has the particular location inscribed on either front or verso in the artist’s hand. Images of a small sampling of these paintings follows.

This exquisite collection is perfect for architects and interior designers who have commercial or institutional design projects requiring imagery of the American Southwest.

The scale of this collection, along with the consistent size of works included, affords opportunities for aesthetic continuity throughout hallways and/or interior offices.

Beyond strong decorative appeal, this assemblage of Swinnerton studies represents a unique fine arts asset for potential clients, providing a rare opportunity to secure in a single acquisition a full and cohesive corporate (or institutional) collection of original artwork by one of America’s most notable and important Southwestern landscape painters.

William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art is able to offer the entire suite at an extremely attractive package price, with appropriate discounts to the trade, making this a very attainable collection for even the most conservative art budget.

Cover: Desert Hills, no date, oil on board, 12x16, signed and titled lower right

Jimmy Swinnerton (1875 - 1974) James (Jimmy) Swinnerton is certainly one of those painters who found happiness in the vast, arid, and bewildering desert.

Swinnerton was born in Eureka, California in 1875. He was raised in Santa Clara and studied art at the San Francisco School of Design. As a young artist he became an illustrator for the San Francisco Examiner. While he briefly worked in New York, Swinnerton returned to Palo Alto, California. In the 1920s, he began traveling throughout the Southwest — painting desert scenes in Arizona, New Mexico, and California. He made frequent trips to the Navajo country, painting the Colorado River, dramatic desert buttes, and iconic big skies. He loved the four great North American deserts including the Great Basin, Sonoran, Mojave, and Chihuahuan — but also painted in Palm Springs, Santa Barbara, and throughout the West.

Artists like James Swinnerton made it their mission to explore America’s deserts through art. Just as the Hudson River School discovered spirituality in the Hudson River Valley and the California impressionist painters were inspired by the landscapes of the Pacific Coast, Swinnerton was among those artists who found beauty in the desert.

Using a variety of techniques and styles, Swinnerton’s paintings explore the unseen virtues of the desert.

Reference Source: Adapted From “An Appraiser Looks at Swinnerton.” California Desert Art by Ann Japenga.

14 June 2011. http://www.californiadesertart.com/?p=659

• Artwork by Jimmy Swinnerton •

No.

Title of Work

1

Lone Smoke Tree, Palm Desert no date oil on board 16 x 12

3

Red Rocks and Soil of Oak Creek Canyon, Near Flagstaff, Arizona

2

Unexpected Greens in California

Date

no date

no date

Medium

oil on board

oil on board

Size (inches)

12 x 16 12x16

4

Red Rock Near St. George, Utah no date oil on board 12x16

6

Grand Canyon from South Rim Near Hull Tank

5

Grand Canyon Corner no date

no date

oil on board

oil on board

16 x 12

12x16

1. Lone Smoke Tree, Palm Desert, no date, 16x12, oil on board, signed and titled en verso

2. Unexpected Greens in California, no date, 12x16, oil on board, signed and titled lower middle

3. Red Rocks and Soil of Oak Creek Canyon, Near Flagstaff, Arizona, no date, 12x16, oil on board, signed and titled lower right

4. Red Rock Near St. George, Utah, no date, oil on board, 12x16, signed and titled lower right

5. Grand Canyon Corner, no date, oil on board, 16 x 12, signed and titled lower right

6. Grand Canyon from South Rim Near Hull Tank, no date, oil on board, 12x16, signed and titled lower right

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