GUARDIAN AT THE GATE 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

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