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

 

Greenwich Workshop Press is pleased to present the fine art book of the season, Into the Sunlit Splendor: The Aviation Art of William S. Phillips, featuring over 130 paintings in a definitive collection of his aviation art. This deluxe Collector’s Edition™ book and fine art canvas set is extremely limited edition comes, jacketed and slipcased with a special, bound-in certificate sheet signed by the artist.

The set is completed by the Limited Edition Fine Art Giclée Canvas, Lightning from the Sun, signed by the artist and numbered. Lightning from the Sun showcases the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the first fighter with two engines. Nearly 10,000 P-38s were produced, in eighteen variants. Known to the Germans as the “Forked Tailed Devil,” a leading P-38 Ace called it, “ ... one of the great aircraft of WWII.” And Japanese Ace Saburo Sakai said,“I was astonished to find an American aircraft that could outrun, outclimb and outdive our Zero ....”

 

Book and canvas released 2005.