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Into the Sunlit Splendor:

The Aviation Art of William S. Phillips

by Ann and Charlie Cooper

Foreword by Apollo Astronaut

Alan Bean

Introduction by Wilson Hurley

Seymour, Connecticut – August 25, 2005 In October, the Greenwich Workshop Press will publish, Into the Sunlit Splendor: The Aviation Art of William S. Phillips, the definitive collection of William S. Phillips’ major paintings, sketches and studies chronicling aviation history.

“William S. Phillips adds to his skill as a landscape artist the rare ability to place aircraft into these scenes and impart to them a sense of motion that is almost palpable.” says Donald S. Lopez, Deputy Director of the National Air and Space Museum “He is one of the very few aviation artists in whose work your can see the air and feel the exhilaration of flight” says Lopez.

America’s premier aviation artist, William S. Phillips has spent a lifetime in the aviation field, on the ground and in the air. More than an airplane portraitist, Phillips is a superb landscape and “skyscape” painter who places his subject in geographic and historical context. A tight formation of F-4 Phantoms scream over Crater Lake Oregon, the Blue Angels soar in exhibition near the California coast; there is a violent confrontation between a German Bf-109 and a

RAF Spitfire above the white cliffs of Sussex’s Beachy Head; a line of Bell Hueys pass through a monsoon-soaked valley in the central highlands of Vietnam. Bill Phillips understands the place and purpose of each aircraft.

“William S. Phillips is rare talent,” military historian George E. Hicks observes. “On a single canvas he captures nature’s most spectacular scenes at supersonic speed and the sleek aircraft that serve as predator and protector in America’s defense.”

As an artist, Phillips appreciates the natural beauty of landscape and atmosphere. In a Phillips canvas, the viewer can almost feel the G-force on his body from the ground-blurring speed of the plane, his mouth go dry in the desert air, or the chill on his neck when it is so old it hurts to breathe. What emerges on canvas is personal experience – power dive, wingover, ground blur, the sheer magnificence of the flight.

William S. Phillips

William S. Phillips majored in criminology in college and served four years in the Air Force including a tour in Vietnam. He was planning to attend law school when four of his paintings were sold. His life’s work as a fine art painter had begun.

In 1986, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum presented a one-

man show of Phillips’ work (His is one of only a few artists to have been so honored.) Phillips was commissioned by the Royal Jordanian Air Force to develop sixteen major paintings, many of which now hang in the Air Force Museum in Amman. In 1998, He was chosen to be a US Navy combat artist, and was awarded the Navy’s Meritorious Public Service Award and the Air Force Sergeants Association’s Americanism Medal for his outstanding work. His art has appeared in numerous museum exhibitions including the 2003 United States Air Force Museum’s “Centennial Celebration of Aviation Art.”

In the fall of 2004, the artist was chosen by the US Park Service to be the Artist-in-Residence in the Grand Canyon. He has twice been commissioned by the U.S. Postal Service to produce a body of paintings for an aviation history stamp series, once in 1994 and again in 2005. Phillips lives near Ashland, Oregon.

Ann and Charlie Cooper

Focusing on women’s achievements in aviation and on aviation artists, Ann Lewis Cooper has nine books and over 700 magazine articles to her credit. A pilot, Ann is a CFII with 2000 flight hours. She was Chief Ground School Instructor and Flight Instructor in Klamath Falls, Oregon; Newport, Rhode Island; and El Paso, Texas. In 2004, she was inducted into the Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame. She is a past editor of The Ninety-Nine News, the monthly newsletter of the International Organization of Women Pilots, and for twelve years she edited “Aero Brush” the quarterly magazine of the American Society of Aviation Artists.

Charles S. Cooper’s business career in telecommunications spanned 32 years with New York Telephone, AT&T, and Bell Communications Research. His military career began in Air Force ROTC and ended 36 years later when he retired as a Major General and Commander of the largest State (NY) Air National Guard in the US. A Master Navigator with over 4000 flying hours, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. He has co-authored, with wife Ann, three aviation books. He serves on the Board of Managers of the Air Force Museum Foundation, and the Board of Nominations at the National Aviation Hall of Fame. The Coopers live in Dayton, Ohio.

About the Greenwich Workshop Press

The Greenwich Workshop Press is a division of The Greenwich Workshop, a leading provider of limited edition fine art prints and canvases, books and art-inspired gifts. Established in 1972, the company’s mission is to enhance the quality of people’s lives through high quality, affordable art. The Greenwich Workshop represents more than 50 leading artists through its authorized network of more than 1,200 art and framing retailers located throughout North America.

Please go to media to access useful story materials including downloadable images of the book jacket, several of Phillip’s paintings, as well as the above photo of the artist.

Hardcover/jacketed, individually boxed, $85.00

Over 120 major paintings plus studies and sketches

208 pages, 14 x 11 inches

October 2005

ISBN 0-86713-093-8

The Greenwich Workshop Press books are distributed to the trade by Artisan, a division of Workman Publishing

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The Aviation Art of William S. Phillips

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