claim: George Harrison got divorced from Pattie Boyd in 1979.
evidence: Carl Eytel -LRB- September 12 , 1862 -- September 17 , 1925 -RRB- was a German American artist who built his reputation for paintings and drawings of desert subjects in the American Southwest .. German American. German American. Immigrating to the United States in 1885 , he eventually settled in Palm Springs , California in 1903 .. With an extensive knowledge of the Sonoran Desert , Eytel traveled with author George Wharton James as he wrote the successful Wonders of the Colorado Desert , and contributed over 300 drawings to the 1908 work .. George Wharton James. George Wharton James. Sonoran Desert. Sonoran Desert. While he enjoyed success as an artist , he lived as an ascetic and eventually died in poverty .. Eytel 's most important work , Desert Near Palm Springs , hangs in the History Room of the California State Library .. California State Library. California State Library