Carriage and Western Art Museum News
Saddles of Fiesta Update
The saddle exhibit will be open until September 1, 2023. We have Old Spanish Day Trophy saddles from 1933 thru 1975. Saddles made by such makers as Visalia Stock Saddle Company, Dick May Saddlery and G.J. Jedlicka Saddlery.
Morgan Peterson
Morgan Peterson is now a board member of the Carriage Museum. He is in charge of our it functions and is currently working on our You Tube Channel. Morgan is director of IT at Compu Vison located in Santa Barbara. Morgan has been with the company for 20 years. He is also the son of […]
New Acquisition – Chas Mead
This is a very early and rare saddle made in the 1850s by Chas H. Mead out of San Francisco. Chas was born in New York City in 1814 and moved to California in the 1850s. He set up his saddle shop on the corner of Front and Jackson St. in San Francisco and remained […]
Frederic Remington bronze statue now at Museum
The Frederic Remington bronze statue, “Off the Range (Coming Through the Rye)”, was donated to the museum by Union Bank through our board member Angela Miller-Bevan. This large bronze statue was created by Remington in 1902 and cast in 1903. This was the largest and most complex bronze statue he ever made. This statue is […]
Dylan Peterson President
Dylan Peterson is now President of the museum. He graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1995 and received a Bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from UCSB in 2004. Shortly thereafter he acquired his Master’s degree in biochemistry. He has published multiple research papers on Alzheimer’s disease but he is currently the Academic Coordinator for the […]