GIVE US THIS DAY by William Phillips

William Phillips Art Gallery

Gallery updated on Tuesday, June 9, 2026

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"Phillips grew up loving art but never thought he could make it his
livelihood. At college he majored in criminology and had been accepted into
law school when four of his paintings were sold at an airport restaurant.
That was all the incentive he needed to begin his work as a fine art painter.
Bill Phillips is now a renowned aviation artist and the landscape artist of
choice for many collectors. Bill's strengths as a landscape painter, a
respect and reverence for a time and place, help him when painting aviation as
well as classic landscapes. Phillips often spends days observing landscape
subjects. Finding companionship with the land, he is able to convey the
boundlessness of nature on the painted canvas inspiring a reverence for the
natural landscape in its beholders.
After one of his paintings was presented to King Hussein of Jordan, Phillips
was commissioned by the Royal Jordanian Air Force. He developed sixteen major
paintings, many of which now hang in the Royal Jordanian Air Force Museum in
Amman. The Smithsonian Institution s National Air and Space Museum presented
a one-man show of Phillips work in 1986. He is one of only a few artists to
have been so honored.
In 1988, Phillips was chosen to be a U.S. Navy combat artist. For his
outstanding work, the artist was awarded the Navy s Meritorious Public Service
Award and the Air Force Sergeants Association s Americanism Medal. At the
prestigious annual fund raiser for the National Park Service, Bill s work has
been included in the Top 100 each year he has entered the competition and his
work has won the Art History Award twice.
Phillips was selected as the Fall 2004 Artist in Residence at the
North Rim of the Grand Canyon and tapped by the U.S. Postal Service to paint
the stamp illustrations and header design for a pane of twenty stamps in 1997
entitled Classic American Aircraft. He was chosen again in 2005 for a pane of
twenty stamps (ten designs) entitled American Advances in Aviation."

William Phillips Current Portfolio

GIVE US THIS DAY Rising into the Storm Limited Edition A Bandit Goes Down Air Force Reflections Christmas Traditions at Watchman Hill Inn The Beginning of the End The Dream Fulfilled Where the Love Light Shines ANNIVERSARY EDITION ON And Now the Trap Anniversary Edition CAPE NEDDICK DAWN Westbound A Date with the General Denali Summer Chasing the Daylight MASTERWORK ANNIVERSARY EDITION The Long Green Line ANNIVERSARY EDITION ON Bound for Home SMALLWORK EDITION ON New Sounds in an Ancient Canyon Alameda Bound INTO THE TEETH OF THE TIGER ANNIVERSARY EDITION Reflections ACCOMPANIMENT TO THE SYMPHONY OF SPRING The Hunter Becomes the Hunted MASTERWORK ANNIVERSARY EDITION When You See Zeros, Fight Em Splitting a Pair I'll Hold You in my Dreams Approaching the Gate to Destiny An Evening to Remember at Thunderbird Lodge, Lake Tahoe Rolling on the River The Hunter Becomes the Hunted ANNIVERSARY EDITION ON I'll Hold You in my Dreams Artist Proof HEARTLAND Sunset Recovery Engaging the Enemy Limited Edition Welcome Home Yank ANNIVERSARY EDITION ON THUNDER IN THE CANYON MASTERWORK COURTYARD When Prayers are Answered ANNIVERSARY EDITION ON HILL COUNTRY HOMECOMING Sunset Recovery Winter Splendor Afternoon Mail Small Works Edition Advantage Eagle Anniversary Edition BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE ENHANCED Evasive Action Over Sagami Bay The Moonwatchers ANNIVERSARY EDITION Shadow Dance SMALLWORK EDITION ON Christmas Eve at the Ahwahnee Toward the Setting Sun Dawn of the Liberators I'll Hold You in my Dreams MASTERWORK EDITION ARTIST PROOF APPLE CREEK YACHT CLUB The Grand Expedition On Wings and A Prayer ANNIVERSARY EDITION ON The Long Ride Home Anniversary Edition Pride of Arizona SMALLWORK EDITION ON Afternoon Departure at Stoney Point Light Choctaw Afternoon SMALLWORK EDITION ON Into the Arms of the Dragon AMONG THE COLUMNS OF THOR Returning Fire I'll Hold You in my Dreams The Phantoms and the Wizard ANNIVERSARY EDITION ON DECEMBER OF 45 Christmas on the Eighth The Grand Expedition THE TENDER CARES OF AUTUMN Into the Arms of the Dragon Limited Edition The Long Green Line ANNINVERSARY MUSEUMEDITION CAN A Time of Eagles Anniversary Edition Into the Sunlit Splendor Avia COLLECTOR BOOK WITH GUARDIAN AT THE GATE Threading The Eye Of The Needle, Limited Edition Print Fuel State Critical - Outcome in Doubt A Prayer for My Brother OPEN EDITION Into the Throne Room of God Anniversary Edition Engaging the Enemy Limited Edition Mission Complete The Journey Continues LIMITED EDITION CO-SIGN Last Chance Anniversary A Christmas Leave When Dreams Come True ANNIVERSARY EDITION ON Fish Tales at Beaver Camp Winter Splendor Westbound A Date with the General Dauntless Against A Rising Sun Anniversary Edition Two Down One to Go ACCOMPANIMENT TO THE SYMPHONY OF SPRING EARLY MORNING VISITORS