Hildred Goodwine

Hildred R. Goodwine Phillips usually known professionally as Hildred Goodwine (March 12, 1918 – December 27, 1998) was an artist, sculptor and illustrator best known for her paintings of horses, western scenes and animals.

Born March 12, 1918 as Hildred R. Ferstle to parents Charles and Ruby Ferstle in Wayne, Michigan, Goodwine died in Wickenburg, Arizona after having lived in Arizona for 46 years. She grew up on a farm in Michigan, and ranched in Kansas since settling in Arizona where she owned and ran a ranch when her husband from 1958 until 1965. She outlived her first husband Jim Goodwine (died 1965) and second husband Floyd Phillips (died 1996).

Goodwine was an illustrator for the Leaning Tree Cards and Western Art, Inc. For example, her painting of two horses looking in a window at a candlelit Christmas tree scene became the most popular Western reaction card sold in America that year.

She created thousands of pieces of art focused upon the West. Her deed has been collected by celebrities and fans of western art in the region of the world.

Wall Drug displays nearly 30 paintings by Hildred Goodwine, where several million tourists a year can see her art for free.

Her painting of Comanche, a horse that survived the Battle of the Little huge Horn was used as a tape cover.

She was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 1989.