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Featured
Artifact
Hundreds
of artifacts are on display at Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House
that reveal stories from the past.
Harmer's
Apache Harvest
Alex
Harmer was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1856 and died in Santa Barbara,
California in 1925. He studied art in the late 1870s and re-enlisted
in the army in 1881. While serving in the west he was able to illustrate
the Apache wars for Harper's Weekly, and for John G. Bourke's An Apache
Campaign in the Sierra Madre. Many of the sketches made during his
years with the army were later made into oil and watercolor paintings.
In the 1890s he settled in Santa Barbara where his interests changed to
painting Mission INdians, the religious missions and portraits of old California
families. The Butterworths and the Wimans had homes in the Santa
Barbara area beginning in the late 1890s and this is probably how they
became interested in Harmer's work.
