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About The Artist :
"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 PORTFOLIO |
| a pair of jacks Fine Art Limited Edition Canvas |
THREADING THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
IMMINENT PURSUIT, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
| SLEIGH RIDE AT APPLE CREEK, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
SLEIGH RIDE AT APPLE CREEK, LIMITED EDITION CANVAS |
AMONG THE COLUMNS OF THOR, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
| EARLY MORNING VISITORS, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
HILL COUNTRY HOMECOMING, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
DECEMBER OF ´45, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
| COURTYARD, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
CAPE NEDDICK DAWN, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
AND THE LIGHT SHALL PREVAIL, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
| POINT BONITA:LAST LIGHT, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
ACCOMPANIMENT TO THE SYMPHONY OF SPRING, L.E. CANVAS |
ACCOMPANIMENT TO THE SYMPHONY OF SPRING, L.E. PRINT |
| THE TENDER CARES OF AUTUMN, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
THE TENDER CARES OF AUTUMN, LIMITED EDITION CANVAS |
WINTER SYMPHONY, MASTERWORK CANVAS EDITION |
| Channel Dawn, LIMITED EDITION CANVAS |
HEARTLAND, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
GIVE US THIS DAY, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
| GIVE US THIS DAY, LIMITED EDITION CANVAS |
THE HEAVENS PROCLAIM HIS GLORY, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
PHANTOM THUNDER, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
| REVELATION, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
REVELATION, MASTERWORK CANVAS EDITION |
APPLE CREEK YACHT CLUB, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
| APPLE CREEK YACHT CLUB, ENHANCED L. E. CANVAS |
GUARDIAN AT THE GATE, LIMITED EDITION CANVAS |
BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
| BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE, ENHANCED L. E. CANVAS |
Out of the Squall Line, MASTERWORK CANVAS EDITION |
Into the Sunlit Splendor: Avia, COLLECTOR BOOK W/ L.E. CANVAS |
| Returning Fire, LIMITED EDITION CANVAS |
Returning Fire, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
Christmas Eve at the Ahwahnee, LIMITED EDITION CANVAS |
| Low Pass for the Home Folks, LIMITED EDITION CANVAS |
Dawn of the Liberators, LIMITED EDITION CANVAS |
Westbound: A Date with the General, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
| Denali Summer, LIMITED EDITION CANVAS |
Westbound: A Date with the General, LIMITED EDITION CANVAS |
First Boots on the Ground, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
| Christmas on the Eighth, LIMITED EDITION CANVAS |
Late Season, Block Island, LIMITED EDITION CANVAS |
I´ll Hold You in my Dreams, LIMITED EDITION CANVAS |
| I´ll Hold You in my Dreams, MASTERWORK CANVAS EDITION |
Into the Arms of the Dragon, LIMITED EDITION CANVAS |
Into the Arms of the Dragon, LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
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