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Birth
1937 (Alcester, South Dakota)
Death
2004 (Carefree, Arizona)
Lived/Active
Arizona
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Indian figure, genre and portrait painting
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Western Painters
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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
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