William S. Phillips - Fish Tales At Beaver Camp - Hand Signed - Limited Edition Canvas - Image Size: 18"w X 24"h. Limited Edition Of: 75 - 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 Was Featured In "western Art Collector." As They Say In The Story, “bill Produces A Sensitive And Wonderfully Composed Landscape And The Depth And Perspective Of These Paintings Are Outstanding.” We Couldn’t Agree More.……about The Artist - William S. Phillips “aviation Was My First Artistic Love,” Says William S. Phillips, “but My True, Enduring Love Remains My Christian Faith, Home And Family. So It Is My Pleasure To Combine All Of It In My Work. The Historical Aviation Subjects, I Research; The Contemporary And Nostalgic Subjects, I Live.” Phillips Grew Up Loving Art But Never Thought He Could Make It His Livelihood. At College He Majored In Criminology And He Had Been Accepted Into Law School When Four Of His Paintings Were Sold At An Airport Restaurant. That Was All The Incentive He Needed To Begin His Work As A Fine Art Painter. Bill Phillips Is Now The Aviation Artist Of Choice For Many American Heroes And The Nostalgic Landscape Artist Of Choice For Many Collectors. Bill’s Strengths As A Landscape Painter Are What Gave Him An Edge In The Aviation Field: Respect And Reverence For A Time And Place. When One Sees His Aviation Pieces, Thoughts Are About The Courageous Individuals Who Risked Their Lives For Our Freedom. In Bill’s Nostalgic Works, The Viewer Understands Fully What That Freedom Is . . . The Precious Values That Make Life Worth Living. After One Of His Paintings Was Presented To King Hussein Of Jordan, Phillips Was Commissioned By The Royal Jordanian Air Force. He Developed Sixteen Major Paintings, Many Of Which Now Hang In The Royal Jordanian Air Force Museum In Amman. The Smithsonian Institution’s National Air And Space Museum Presented A One-man Show Of Phillips’ Work In 1986; He Is One Of Only A Few Artists To Have Been So Honored. In 1988, Phillips Was Chosen To Be A U.s. Navy Combat Artist. For His Outstanding Work, The Artist Was Awarded The Navy’s Meritorious Public Service Award And The Air Force Sergeants Association’s Americanism Medal. In 1991, Three Of Phillips’ Works Were Chosen As Part Of The Top 100 In “art For The Parks,” The Prestigious Annual Fund-raiser For The National Park Service, And One Painting Received The “art History Award” From The National Park Foundation.

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