William Phillips Limited Editions - S-Z

WILLIAM PHILLIPS - LIMITED EDITIONS S-Z

WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Shore Birds at Point Lobos

paper

1250 signed and numbered

25" x 45.25"

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Since 1946 when the first Blue Angels flight demonstration team took to the air, more than 156 million people have been thrilled by their heart-stopping aerial artistry.

As part of the U.S. Navy, the Blue Angels are carrier qualified pilots, but, as the title of this work implies, they spend most of their time near the shore. Since 1973, the Blue Angels have flown the lightweight McDonald Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, a small, highly maneuverable machine.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Shore Birds at Point Lobos - Poster
	paper	open edition fine art poster	24" x 36"	$30

WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Sierra Hotel

paper

1250
signed and numbered

21" x 32.5"

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An F-4N of Navy squadron VF-111 moves down close and fast across the northeastern Arizona desert, mirrored by another in the distance.

When VF-111 was established during the Second World War, it adopted the emblem of a setting sun, and during the late 1960s and throughout the 70s, the squadron had some of the most colorfully painted aircraft in the Navy inventory. Artist William Phillips shows an F-4N as it looked in 1976, sporting red, white and blue tailmarkings to celebrate the Bicentennial.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Sleigh Ride at Apple Creek
	paper	550 signed and numbered	18.75" x 28"	$165
	giclee canvas	75 signed and numbered	20" x 30"	$595
	enhanced giclee canvas	100 signed and numbered	20" x 30"	email price request
During the winter, Apple Creek Inn at Phillips Bay offers many diversions for its guests, but the favorite adventure is the sleigh ride. Nestled under a warm blanket, you glide over hill and dale. The clean, fresh, exhilaration of air envelops you as the horse's bells cut through the silence of a snow-covered landscape. Once your ride has come to an end, you can spend your evening relaxing by the warm glow of the fireplace. To accompany your hot mug of Apple Creek's famous cider are the tranquil melodies the string quartet.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Spring Fling
	paper	1250 signed and numbered	20" x 36"	email price request
My favorite time growing up were Sundays, just after church, when we all gathered at Grandma's stately old house. The grown-ups chatted away and the kids played outside while the big Sunday meal was being prepared. My friends, relatives, and I probably had more fun on this lawn than any other place. - W. S. P.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS The Storm Watchers
	paper	1250 signed and numbered	20" x 36"	email price request
Aviation is my primary artistic love, but my true, enduring love remains my Christian faith, home and family, so it is my pleasure to combine it into my work, along with my interest in landscape, automobiles, and architecture. I hope my art warms your heart, pleases your eyes, and engages your mind. - W. S. P.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Summer of '45: And All Creation Rejoiced
	giclee canvas	300 signed and numbered	16" x 36"	email price request
	paper	1750 signed and numbered	18.75" x 36"	email price request
Summer of '45: And All Creation Rejoiced, a spectacular combination of landscape, aviation art, and Americana. The heavens themselves seem to join the print's fireworks celebration by adding their own faraway lighting dance. But what would a Phillips painting be without a plane? This image features a Lockheed Constellation in the upper right - the transport affectionately known as "Connie" - now beginning to bring the boys home.for good.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Sunset Sentinel
	canvas	550 signed and numbered	24.5" x 32.75"	email price request
Behind every Phillips painting there is a spectacular piece of landscape art, and it was only a matter of time before this took center stage. (Of course, it's hard for Bill not to have something flying through the picture.) Sunset Sentinel is one of the ways Phillips' art is heading these days: a focus on those moments and places that rigger impressions of home or familiarity, in a setting which embraces the grandeur of the world in which we live.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Sunward We Climb
	paper	1000 signed and numbered	25" x 45.25"	$800
Since making their first appearance at Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in May 1972, Snowbirds, the daring Canadian Forces Air Demonstration Team, have displayed their aeronautical skills to more than 30 million spectators throughout North America. Flying Canadair CT114 Tutor jet trainers, these pilots have amazed audiences with their fast-paced, heart-stopping maneuvers and formations.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS The Tender Cares of Autumn
	paper	750 signed and numbered	17.5" x 30"	$175
	giclee canvas	550 signed and numbered	21" x 36"	$695

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Those Clouds Won't Help You Now
	paper	625 signed and numbered	22.5" x 27.5"	email price request
Countersigned by Marine Ace Marion E. Carl
Action over Rabaul, December 1943: Major Marion E. Carl, commander of Marine Fighter Squadron VMF223, flying escort for Marine B-25 bombers. A Japanese "Tony" jumps the bombers, and Carl closes in. The Japanese plane is hit on Carl's first pass, hence the name of the print: "Those Clouds Won't Help You Now." For Maj. Carl, later General Carl, it was his seventeenth victory. The proud heritage of Marine Corps aviation is captured in this superb limited edition print by noted aviation artist William S. Phillips. For enthusiasts of World War II aircraft, the Corsair F-4U-1 is portrayed accurately and dramatically. "Those Clouds Won't Help You Now" is countersigned by Marion E. Carl himself. Twenty-five of the prints also bear unique double remarque, which is a sketch of the two planes in the painting. The remarques are positioned in the lower border, and each is the original work of the artist.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Those Last Critical Moments
	paper	1250 signed and numbered	24" x 30.25"	email price request
The carrier environment is one of the most dangerous in the world. Planes come in at full power; if the cable does not arrest the plane, called "trapping," the aircraft must immediately take off again. When an aircraft takes off from a carrier deck, a forward catapult, called a "cat stroke" adds to the forward momentum of the plane. Whether taking off or landing, the last moments are indeed critical and aircrews must continually requalify for carrier work. Aviation artist William S. Phillips says, "I was not prepared for the incredible noise, constant activity and the smell of hot metal and jet fuel. It was a formidable assault on the senses. To capture the tension and anticipation , I placed a F-14 Tomcat being launched from a forward catapult and another F-14 just prior to the completion of a successful trap on the carrier Kitty Hawk against the idyllic backdrop of a Pacific sunset."

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Threading the Eye of the Needle
	paper	1000 signed and numbered	30.25" x 38"	email price request
It is said that landing a jet on the deck of a moving aircraft carrier is like threading the eye of a needle. Even on a super carrier the size of this one, the new USS George Washington, it is a daunting proposition. Famed aviation artist William S. Phillips ought to know. With the full cooperation of the United States Navy, he spent three days aboard a super carrier in preparation for painting Threading the Eye of the Needle.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Thunder and Lightning P-38
	paper	850 signed and numbered	18.25" x 23.5"	email price request
"I used a threatening storm in a canyon of clouds to showcase the potent P-38 Lightning. Pilot Tommy McGuire, one of our most distinguished aviators, Medal of Honor recipient, and second leading ace of all time and his wingman initiate a climbing turn to get the most from their 'forktailed devils'." - W. S. P.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Thunder in the Canyon
	paper	1500 signed and numbered	25" x 45.25"	$2800
Bill Phillips' "Thunder in the Canyon" is one of the most beautiful aviation paintings ever created - and its place in aviation art is already assured. The massive eight-foot-long original has been donated by the purchaser to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.. The painting's power results from Phillips' dramatic combination of his two favorite subjects - flight and the American landscape. The flight aspect of the painting is embodied in powerful F-16's flown by the Air Force's "Thunderbirds" in delta formation. As for the landscape, the unmistakable Grand Canyon lies beneath the flyers, its colors brilliantly illuminated by a late afternoon sun. Kanab Plateau and towering thunderheads can be seen in the distance. Never has flight been more beautiful.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Thunder in the Canyon - POSTER
	paper	open edition fine art poster	20" x 30"	$30
Bill Phillips' "Thunder in the Canyon" is one of the most beautiful aviation paintings ever created - and its place in aviation art is already assured. The massive eight-foot-long original has been donated by the purchaser to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.. The painting's power results from Phillips' dramatic combination of his two favorite subjects - flight and the American landscape. The flight aspect of the painting is embodied in powerful F-16's flown by the Air Force's "Thunderbirds" in delta formation. As for the landscape, the unmistakable Grand Canyon lies beneath the flyers, its colors brilliantly illuminated by a late afternoon sun. Kanab Plateau and towering thunderheads can be seen in the distance. Never has flight been more beautiful.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS A Time of Eagles
	paper	1250 signed and numbered	27.25" x 34"	email price request
Countersigned by Colonel Oscar Coen, (Ret., USAF), DFC, a Spitfire Pilot of the 71 American Eagle Squadron
Countersigned by fighter pilot Oscar Coen, William S. Phillips' A Time of Eagles is a historical document.one that pays tribute to one of the most tumultuous but exciting times in the chronicles of aerial combat. It began in the spring of 1940 after the armies of France were defeated by Germany at the Battle of Dunkirk. Britain had lost her strongest ally in the war, and she and her commonwealth nations stood alone against the German war machine. During these dark months, a small group of American pilots joined Britain in the fight against Germany's seemingly invincible Luftwaffe. These 244 brave aviators flew the most maneuverable plane of the time- the Spitfire - with the elite Eagle Squadron of the RAF. Many became leading aces of the war, earning service honors from both England and America. On September 15, 1942, the men of eagle Squadrons transferred into the U.S. Army Air Forces and became the 4^th Fighter Group. Fighter pilot Oscar Coen was one of these brave men and A Time of Eagles by acclaimed aviation artist William S. Phillips portrays Coen as he soars through the clouds at sunset in his Spitfire. As one of the original members of 71 Eagle Squadron, Oscar Coen earned Britain's Distinguished Flying Cross and the French Cross of War, as well as the Silver Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross from the United States Air Force. He is credited with six 'kills.' During his service he was shot down once in France, near the coastal town of Dunkirk. Looking back on his war years, Coen says: "There were as many reasons why we went to England as there were pilots. A lot of us saw the political ramifications of the war. We wanted to stop Hitler. But some of us were just adventurers. A lot of guys went because the British Spitfire was the hottest thing in the air and they wanted to fly it." A Time of Eagles: A salute to the daring American pilots of the Eagle Squadrons who earned the respect of their fellow RAF pilots and a special place in world history.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Time to Head Home
	paper	1500 signed and numbered	23" x 32.25"	email price request
An F4-U4 Corsair VF-791 belonging to The Fighting Rebels, a reserve squadron from Memphis, Tennessee, unleashes its rockets against a target hidden among the snow clad mountains of Korea. Mission accomplished, it is time for this fighter to head home. And home for this Corsair is the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Boxer CV-21 stationed off the Korean coast.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Top Cover for the Straggler
	paper	1000 signed and numbered	17" x 29.25"	email price request
Countersigned by Capt. Jack Ilfrey
For a crippled bomber returning from a mission over enemy territory, the sight of a fighter escort was a most welcome event. Here, a P-38 Lightening provides support for a damaged B-17 returning from Germany. Artist Bill Phillips chose to portray a particular P-38 - "Happy Jack's Go-Buggy" - piloted by Capt. Jack Ilfrey. Capt. Ilfrey flew 142 combat mission as a member of the 94^th Fighter Squadron. A holder of the air medal with 12 oak leaf clusters, he has been decorated with the Silver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross and six Bronze Stars. His signature appears on the print along with that of artist Bill Phillips.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Victory Pass
	paper	550 signed and numbered	16.5" x 29"	email price request

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Welcome Home Yank
	paper	1000 signed and numbered	22.5" x 27.5"	email price request

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Westbound: Date with the General
	paper	300 signed and numbered	25.75" x 22"	$550
	canvas	200 signed and numbered	35" x 30"	$1295
"When we get to Chunking, I'm going to give you all a party that you won't forget," was Lt. Colonel James Doolittle's promise to the 16 B-25 crews aboard the USS Hornet a few days before their historic air raid on Japan. By late afternoon on April 18th, 1942 the relative safety of the China coast was all that Lt. Donald G. Smith's crew had on their minds. The 15th aircraft (# 40-2267) to leave the carrier's deck had bombed its targets in Kobe, Japan but the crewmen knew they'd never make their designated landing strip on the Chinese mainland. The weather had become increasingly worse and visibility had dropped to zero. Lt. Smith was forced to ditch his bomber off an island on the Chinese Coast near Sangchow. All of Aircraft 15's crew would eventually make their way to Chunking but sixteen of the other Doolittle's Raiders did not. Doolittle himself would rise to the rank of full General. It is the stuff of aviator legend that when the last Raider makes his final flight westward into the day's fading light he will be greeted by his fellow Raiders and the General, and they will have a party never to be forgotten. This print is signed by the surviving Doolittle Raiders.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS When Prayers Are Answered
	paper	850 signed and numbered	25.5" x 33"	email price request
Countersigned by Colonel James R. Geary, Jr., Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel "Gus" Mencow, Technical Sergeant Shirl Hoffman, and Master Sergeant Clifford Puckett
With his countersigned print When Prayers are Answered, William S. Phillips honors the B-17 bombers who went in, without fighter cover, to pound Germany's industrial heartland. "I spotlight 'Betty Boop the Pistol Packin' Mama' (of the 390the Bomb Group, 570^th Bomb Squadron) as she makes it back once again to the white cliffs of Dover accompanied by two P-47's," Phillips says. "But the sense of relief I tried to create with sparkling seas and golden skies is for all the brave men who fought for their country."

WILLIAM PHILLIPS When You See Zeros, Fight 'Em
	paper	1000 signed and numbered	21.5" x 26.5"	email price request
Countersigned by Joseph J. Foss, Brigadier General (Ret.) and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient
On October 23,1942, 28 Japanese Zeros and 16 Betty bombers swooped down on Guadalcanal. Defending the base were 24 Grumman F4F Wildcats under the command of Marine Captain Joseph J.Foss. In When You See Zeros, Fight'Em! , Foss maneuvers his plane behind a Zero who is pursuing another Wildcat and opens fire. The Zero burst in flames, one of the 23 Japanese aircraft single-handedly shot down by Foss. Joseph J. Foss was one of America's top aces during World War II. Awarded the Medal of Honor by President Franklin Roosevelt, Foss went on to a remarkable career, attaining the rank of Brigadier General. After the military, Foss served as Governor of South Dakota for two terms and as Commissioner of the American Football League.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Winter Symphony
	Masterwork giclee canvas	150 signed and numbered	36" x 72"	$2450
No place is more unique to the American landscape than the Grand Canyon. To stand at its rim and behold its vast beauty is truly one of the greatest experiences this country has to offer. Here sunset casts its amber glow across the snow-swept terraces of Yaki Point, northeast from the artist’s location at Mather Point. This dramatically-sized canvas is one of the largest giclees ever produced and captures the grand scope of this natural wonder far better than any replica has before.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Winter Visitors at Kringle Hill Inn
	canvas	150 signed and numbered	15" x 20"	email price request

WILLIAM PHILLIPS Wintering Over
	paper	750 signed and numbered	14.25" x 30"	email price request
	giclee canvas	550 signed and numbered	17" x 36"	email price request

WILLIAM PHILLIPS - LIMITED EDITIONS S-Z

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Last modified: July 11, 2008