Winter Discovery Auction Nov 14
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/14/2013
JAMES G. SWINNERTON(1875-1974)“Off to Chicago” Wm. Jennings Bryan election depicts cartoon politicians carrying election banners. Original Drawing signed in LR. James Guilford Swinnerton (November 13, 1875 – September 8, 1974) was an American cartoonist and a landscape painter of the Southwest deserts. He was known as Jimmy to some and Swinny to others. He signed some of his early cartoons Swin, and on one ephemeral comic strip he used Guilford as his signature. Experimenting with narrative continuity, he played a key role in the development of the comic strip at the end of the 19th century
JAMES G. SWINNERTON (Bryan for President March)
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