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06/20/2007
Phil Schnabel
Meeting Hurlstone
During Summer vacation from Lewiston, Idaho High School in 1938 (We were between our Junior & Senior year), my friend, Tom Campbell, & I decided to hitch-hike from Lewiston to Pendleton, Oregon to visit Tom‘s girl friend. Although hitch-hiking was much safer in those days, our Mothers still warned us against doing it. We did it anyway.
One ride I will always remember. We were on the road just out of Walla Walla, Washington when a car with a big smiling driver pulled up. He told us to hop in. After we headed out, for the first five minutes, he lectured us on the dangers of being out on the road like that: “It’s not safe for such young & inexperienced people.” He took us all the way to Pendleton. Along the way, he told us that he was the well-known landscape artist, Hurlstone P. Fairchild. He showed us a newspaper & said he had just had an article written about him. Then he started to laugh. “They said I have the body of an elephant and the soul of a butterfly.”
03/19/2004
Candace McGreevy
Fairchild painting
Our Historical Association (in PA)has been given a large signed painting by Hurlstone Fairchild F.R.S.A. and we wonder what the value might be? It shows two large trees with a man riding a horse between them. The painting was donated for our Auction on May 19.
02/04/2004
Bill Buehler
Hurlstone Fairchild
I research history of Fox Theatre in Tucson that is being restored. A story from 1931 describes a showing of Fairchild's works in the lobby. Does anyone have information on his early years in Arizona?
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