A member of the Cowboy Artists of America and the American Watercolor Society, Ray Swanson was known for his Southwest Native American subject--the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni and Apache Indians. He was... Read full biography
A member of the Cowboy Artists of America and the American Watercolor Society, Ray Swanson was known for his Southwest Native American subject--the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni and Apache Indians. He was especially known for depicting children and smaller animals belonging to these tribes and for the beauty... Read full biography
A member of the Cowboy Artists of America and the American Watercolor Society, Ray Swanson was known for his Southwest Native American subject--the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni and Apache Indians. He was especially known for depicting children and smaller animals belonging to these tribes and for the beauty of their traditional costumes. Swanson was raised in rural South Dakota and settled in Carefree, Arizona. He first visited a Navajo Reservation in Arizona in the early 1960s, and from that time,... Read full biography
A member of the Cowboy Artists of America and the American Watercolor Society, Ray Swanson was known for his Southwest Native American subject--the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni and Apache Indians. He was especially known for depicting children and smaller animals belonging to these tribes and for the beauty of their traditional costumes. Swanson was raised in rural South Dakota and settled in Carefree, Arizona. He first visited a Navajo Reservation in Arizona in the early 1960s, and from that time, incorporated Indian figures and genre into his subject matter. He attended a one-room schoolhouse in South Dakota and was early recognized for his art talent. His father was killed when Ray was young, and the family moved to California where he enrolled... Read full biography
A member of the Cowboy Artists of America and the American Watercolor Society, Ray Swanson was known for his Southwest Native American subject--the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni and Apache Indians. He was especially known for depicting children and smaller animals belonging to these tribes and for the beauty of their traditional costumes. Swanson was raised in rural South Dakota and settled in Carefree, Arizona. He first visited a Navajo Reservation in Arizona in the early 1960s, and from that time, incorporated Indian figures and genre into his subject matter. He attended a one-room schoolhouse in South Dakota and was early recognized for his art talent. His father was killed when Ray was young, and the family moved to California where he enrolled at the Northrop Institute of Technology in Los Angeles. He worked full time as a draftsman and studied aero-nautical en... Read full biography
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About Ray Swanson: Books
Books & Publications (30)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Prix de West 30th Anniversary 2003 (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Schroeder, Charles (Intro)
204 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America
2002
Duty, Michael; Don Hedgpeth
216 pages (color)
Art of the West Guidebook of Western Artists 2001 Edition
2001
Editors, Art of the West
88 pages (color)
A Brush With Reality: Detailing the West in Contemporary Art Desert Caballeros Western Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1998
McGarry, Susan Hallsten
58 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America Thirty-Third Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Phoenix Art Museum
80 pages (color)
Great American Artists Exhibition and Sale (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Cincinnati Museum Center
82 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America 32nd Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Cowboy Artists of America
80 pages (color)
Leading the West One Hundred Contemporary Painters & Sculptors
1997
Hagerty, Donald J
213 pages (color)
Prix de West Invitational 1997 (Exhibition catalog)
1997
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
194 pages (color)
Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997
Southwest Art
128 pages
Prix de West Invitational 1996 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
192 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America 30th Anniversary Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Haley, J. Evetts (Introduction)
80 pages (color)
Denver Rotary Club's Artists of America: Fourteenth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Denver Rotary Club
88 pages (color)
The Art of Ray Swanson Celebrating People and Lifestyles
1994
O'Keefe, Tom
208 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Artists of America Thirteenth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Denver Rotary Club
96 pages (color)
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993
Southwest Art
126 pages
National Academy of Western Art Twentieth Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
158 pages (color)
Artists of America Tenth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Denver Rotary Club
160 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America Twenty Fourth Annual Exhibition 1989 (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Cowboy Artists of America
60 pages (color)
Artists of America Eighth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Denver Rotary Club
143 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Reynolds, Catherine
153 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Contemporary Western Artists
1982
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
608 pages (color)
Treasures of the American West Harrison Eiteljorg Collection