WILLIAM S. PHILLIPS ART

The American Homefront Series, an episodic look at home life during World War II, comprises some of artist William S. Phillips’ most popular and sought-after works. In this Anniversary Edition of A Christmas Leave, When Dreams Come True, it’s 1943 and the young soldier from the first painting, If Only in My Dreams, is home on leave. “This is one of the fortunate few who got a Christmas leave during World War II,” says the artist. “I wanted a more peaceful feeling in this painting, so the soldier is driving into the sunset. The colors are warmer and the mood is more festive.” There are still shadows on the horizon but the path to victory seems clear. Look closely at each painting in the Homefront Series to find a plane in the sky. The DC-3 in this painting (known in its wartime version as a C-47) is now a passenger airliner. The dog that waited patiently for his master’s return sits beside his owner on the way to a family reunion, to play cards with the boys or maybe to visit his girl. Tonight on the radio they might even hear, “When Dreams Come True,” immortalized by Count Basie and his Orchestra.	A CHRISTMAS LEAVE WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE Size Type Edition Price 32 x 16 Giclée Canvas 175 $595
Welcome back to Phillips Bay, artist William S. Phillips’ popular nostalgic creation portrayed in his Phillips Bay series of paintings. Stoney Point Light was built in the mid-1800s on the northern most point of land at the entrance to the inner harbor at Phillips Bay. Its name came from the rugged and treeless landscape along the windswept edge of the channel. The lighthouse keeper who lives and works here has a choice assignment. The rambling cape home runs right up to the lighthouse door so attending to the lighthouse duties, particularly in stormy weather, is close at hand. The era is the mid-1950s. The Grumman Goose, designed in the 1930s as an eight seat amphibian commuter plane, served in WWII in combat and training. After the war the “Goose” returned to commuter and business use, especially around water, from Catalina, to Alaska, and yes, to Phillips Bay.	AFTERNOON DEPARTURE AT STONEY POINT LIGHT Size Type Edition Price 17 X 13 Giclée Canvas 175 $395
“My interest in the Daylight was sparked as a young boy,” says the artist, “when my parents took me down to the Sepulveda Boulevard crossing in Los Angeles to watch the train, arriving from San Francisco, roar by. It was a magnificent sight, with a full head of steam up and the late afternoon sun glinting off its sparkling surface. “I enjoy trains and ride them every chance I get and on one such trip, I watched as a small speck in the sky turned out to be an N2S-2 Stearman¯a biplane produced for the Naval Air Training Command. I promised myself I would capture the scene on canvas one day.” Pilots without instruments can drop low to follow the “iron compass” for directional guidance when storm clouds block visibility. These two U.S. Navy trainees can’t resist the adrenaline rush of pitting their winged racers against the speeding steam engine.	CHASING THE DAYLIGHT Size Type Edition Price 40 X 20 Giclée Canvas 150 $850
Against a golden sunset, a Sikorsky VS-44 approaches the harbor at Phillips Bay. As the brisk night air descends on this first night of December, Santa Claus arrives at the Watchman Hill Inn, heralded by two men in Revolutionary War dress and the traditional firing of the cannon. During the Revolutionary War, a citizens’ militia kept watch over the Outer Bay from the hill. If they spied British ships on the horizon, the cannon’s voice would alert the townsfolk to prepare a defense. These days, the sounding of the cannon is a cause for merriment. The holiday season in Phillips Bay is filled with the traditional joys of colored lights, caroling, feasting and church services, accompanied by a fresh blanket of snow.	CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS AT WATCHMAN HILL INN Size Type Edition Price 24 X 12 Giclée Canvas 200 $450
Bill Phillips’ new painting Denali Summer features two celebrated icons of the far North: one natural, one man-made. The forbidding and beautiful Alaskan wilds provide the backdrop for the legendary workhorse of the Alaskan bush: a De Havilland Beaver float plane. As the plane roars over the summer tundra, the icy river below rushes and tumbles its contents of glacial silt. On the distant horizon, America’s highest peak dominates the horizon. (Mount McKinley is also known as Denali, or “The High One,” in the language of the local people.) Mount McKinley’s scale is so massive that the mountain actually creates its own weather, and today its peak sparkles in the brilliant sunlight of one of the few cloudless days of the year.	DENALI SUMMER Size Type Edition Price 30 X 22 Giclée Canvas 150 $725
With no offense to the practitioners of the culinary arts, you just can’t beat the taste of a freshly caught trout, skillet fried on an open fire, a hundred miles from the nearest gas-range stove. Need we mention the view? It was designed and built by Mother Nature herself. As for Beaver Camp, well, you can find it anywhere you can land a de Havilland (DHC-2) Beaver, the work-horse float plane of the North Country. As for the fish tales themselves, a great deal of that depends of the company and the day. But as a rule of thumb, consider this: the wider the arms are spread, the greater the tale. Fish Tales at Beaver Camp and Bill Phillips are featured in the August issue of Western Art Collector. As they say in the story, “Bill produces a sensitive andwonderfully composed landscape, and the depth and perspective of these paintings are outstanding.” We couldn’t agree more.	FISH TALES AT BEAVER CAMP Size Type Edition Price 18 X 24 Giclée Canvas 75 $525
The American Homefront Series, an episodic look at home during World War II, comprises some of William S. Phillips’ most popular and sought-after works. Now, for the first time in over ten years, Phillips has created a new painting in the series: I’ll HoldYou in My Dreams, set on a warm winter day just after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Our young Army Air Force Lieutenant stands out from the crowd as he bids his girl goodbye. Locomotive 4443 of the Noon Coast “Daylight” slowly eases to a stop at Santa Barbara Station.The next stop is San Luis Obispo, 119 miles up the line. With a scheduled ride time of two hours and eighteen minutes, a passenger might have time for dinner in the dining car—if he wanted to spend at least ninety cents on dinner, or splurge on the fresh mountain trout at $1.50. In the air over the station are two P-38 fighter aircraft on their first test flight, a mere day after rolling off the assembly line in Burbank. Full production of operational aircraft has begun and will continue around the clock. Young soldiers departing for war after Pearl Harbor faced the unknown road ahead with patriotic and passionate commitment and they held their heads high as they bid their loved ones farewell.	I'LL HOLD YOU IN MY DREAMS Size Type Edition Price 30 X 15 Giclée Canvas 250 $595
Following in the footsteps of his successful Inns of Christmas series, William S. Phillips now begins Inns of the Seasons, beginning with Late Season, Block Island. William and his wife, Kristi, traveled to Block Island, Rhode Island, to research the local inns and found themselves at the Atlantic Inn, owned by Brad and Anne Marthens. “The inn gives you a feeling of Block Island as it must have been many, many years ago,” says the artist. “It has that laid-back feeling of a classic New England inn.”	LATE SEASON BLOCK ISLAND Size Type Edition Price 30 X 15 Giclée Canvas 250 $550
"Let Your Heart Come Home" to Phillips Bay "This is a celebration of commitment and enduring romance," says William S. Phillips. It is a love story, one that speaks of love in its various stages. You cannot help but wonder how many times our moonwatchers have held hands and shared dreams sorrows as they have watched each season pass and each new moon wax and wane. "Our couple sits quietly with their dogs, gazing out across chapters of their lives. There is the warm and comfortable home that has heard the laughter of children; there is the church where they were married so many years ago. And there in the distance, is 'their' moon. I hope this print can be shared and appreciated by lovers-the moonwatchers-of any age." This beloved work of art from acclaimed painter William S. Phillips returns as a Greenwich Workshop Anniversary Edition. Like the full moon itself, Moonwatchers will only appear for a limited time, so call your Greenwich Workshop Authorized Dealer today.	THE MOONWATCHERS Size Type Edition Price 32 X 19 Giclée Canvas 175 $795
Phillips’ passion for aviation is second only to his infatuation with the American experience and the impact that the land, its people, its history and its values have upon one another. This is what he calls The American Landscape, paintings about a time, a place and the course of American events. The Grand Canyon is the iconic American landscape. For millennia, the only sounds heard in the Canyon were those of the elements and all things wild. As man arrived the sounds of early domestication could, only faintly, be heard. By the late 1800s, outfits such as Wellington Starky’s Diamond Bar Ranch heralded the news that cattle was king, even in the Grand Canyon. In 1919, man took to the skies over the Canyon for the first time. A mere nine years later, Grand Canyon Airlines was taking tourists on scenic flights in Ford Tri-Motors such as this one, bouncing the drone of radial engines from ancient rim to ancient rim. Flights such as this confirmed that as yet another era neared its end in the Canyon, a new one had begun as the crown jewel of the American Landscape.	NEW SOUNDS IN AN ANCIENT CANYON Size Type Edition Price 22 X 30 Giclée Canvas 75 $725
	PRIDE OF ARIZONA Size Type Edition Price 8 X 16 Giclée Canvas 125 $225
“I was nine years old when my father sent me a postcard from the Grand Canyon,” says Phillips. “From that time on, I have been fascinated by its grandeur and ever-changing moods. I have seen the Grand Canyon from numerous vantage points— through rumbling summer thunderstorms and howling winter blizzards, from the sky above and along its myriad of trails to the river below. It is always an awesome and humbling experience and one that must be preserved for future generations.” During his time as an Artist in Residence at the Grand Canyon in 2004, Phillips worked hard to interpret the park’s purpose as a place of pleasure and its importance as a national treasure. His magnificent works from that period, including Reflections, testify to the majesty of the American landscape.	REFLECTIONS Size Type Edition Price 12 X 24 Giclée Canvas 75 $495