Into the Sunlit Splendor: The Aviation Art of William S. Phillips

by Ann Cooper, William S. Phillips

In a Willian S. Phillips painting—a tight formation of F-4 Phantoms screaming over Crater Lake, Oregon; the Blue Angels soaring near the California coast; a violent confrontation between a German Bf-109 and a RAF Spitfire above Sussex’s Beachy Head; a line of Bell Hueys passing through a monsoon-soaked valley in Vietnam—a viewer can almost feel the pressure on his body from the groundblurring speed of the plane, his mouth go dry in the desert air, or the chill on his neck when it’s so cold it hurts to breathe. Phillips is also a superb landscape and “skyscape” painter who places his subjects in geographic and historical context.

A wealth of aviation and military history by Ann and Charlie Cooper accompanies the paintings, as do Phillips’s own archival photographs.

Genres: Art

224 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2005

Reviews

[Kevin Keating · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a really good book. Full size paintings that look like photos. Some good explanations of the planes and flyers.