Frederick A. Butman

1820 Born in Gardiner, Maine

1850s Owned a drugstore in Gardiner

1857 Moved to San Francisco, California, and became active there as a landscape painter

1859 Trip to Yosemite Valley, California

1860–65 Explored 1,000 miles of the Columbia River

1866 Moved to New York City

1867 Exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Brooklyn Art Association

1868 Produced earliest known White Mountain works; exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

1869 Sketching trip in Europe

1871 Died in Gardiner, Maine