William S. Phillips CAPING THE TICO 21x29 S/N Vietnam Aviation Art Countersigned

Description: CAPing the Tico by William S. Phillips Background Information Topic Statistics Artist William S. Phillips Title CAPing the Tico Year 1997 Series Single Release Medium Paper Printing Method Lithograph Image Size 21" x 29" Edition Size #134/950 S/N Signed Yes Numbered Yes Issue Price $265.00 Our Price $578.00 Item comes with free shipping, handling, & insurance. This unframed limited edition paper lithograph print is brand new, signed and numbered by the artist William S. Phillips, and countersigned by 1 pilot. It ships flat and fully insured in a sturdy box. It includes its original folio and Certificate of Authenticity (COA) from The Greenwich Workshop. Print Description CAPing the Tico color_lens CAPing the Tico honors James B. Stockdale, who led the first American air attacks against North Vietnam in 1964, and whose Fighter Squadron 51 flew Combat Air Patrols (CAPs) above the USS Ticonderoga. On September 9, 1965, while Carrier Air Group Commander, flying A-4 Skyhaks off the USS Oriskany, Stockdale was shot down by anti-aircraft fire near Thanh Hoa. From that day until February 12, 1983, he was the senior naval officer in North Vietnams's Prisoner of War camps — leading an organized resistance by all POW's against enemy interrogation and torture. For his "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty," James B. Stockdale was presented with the United States' highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. Countersigner: Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale, USN, CMOH.-- The Greenwich Workshop< James Bond Stockdale (December 23, 1923 – July 5, 2005) was an American and United States Navy vice admiral. He was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War where he was a prisoner of war for over seven years. Stockdale was the highest-ranking naval officer held as a prisoner in North Vietnam. He had led aerial attacks from the carrier USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) during the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident. On his next deployment, while Commander of Carrier Air Wing 16 aboard the carrier USS Oriskany (CV-34), he was shot down in North Vietnam on September 9, 1965. During the late 1970s, he served as President of the Naval War College. Stockdale was a candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 1992 presidential election on Ross Perot's independent ticket.-- Wikipedia Artist Biography About the Artist color_lens William Phillips, the Painter of American Nostalgia, was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1945. "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 claims a hereditary calling to art. His father was a fine painter and cartoonist, but chose the theater as his career. As for William, his talent for drawing and his interest in aircraft both emerged at a very early age. When he was twelve, William would go to the Van Nuys airport and watch the California Air National Guard F-86's take off and land. He would then rush home to try and sketch their sleek lines in motion. Phillips' love of flight led him into the Air Force. During his tour of duty, he became a member of the Air Force Art Program. He was stationed at a number of bases, including an assignment at Tan Son Nhut, Vietnam, where he logged hours in F106's, F-15's, RF-4's, to name a few. Bill also spent many afternoons sketching the various aircraft on the base and the beautiful clouds that gathered daily during the monsoon season. After discharge, Phillips attended Southern Oregon University, majoring in law while living and working at a fire station as a student firefighter. He worked for the City of Ashland, Oregon, as a city firefighter for twelve years, then spent another four years as a wild land firefighter, continuing to hone his painting skills all the while. Although William grew up loving art, he never thought he could make it his livelihood. After graduating from college, Bill was accepted into law school. However, the turning point came when four of his WWII aircraft paintings which were displayed in an airport restaurant sold. That was all the incentive Bill needed to put his new law degree aside and follow his heart to a full-time life as an artist. William Phillips painted his first nostalgic piece, a painting of an old car with a rumble seat crossing a wooden bridge, in 1975. The Phillips Bay series of landscape paintings was introduced in 1998, and since that time he's explored the neighborhoods of Dogwood County in loving detail. Phillips chooses this intimate stage to chronicle America's past from the 1930's through the difficult days of WWII to the present day. This nostalgic series of landscapes is set in the idyllic small town of Phillips Bay. This charming village is everyone's dream hometown, where we all want to raise our children and eventually retire. A town of church socials, band concerts, and Fourth of July parades, where everyone is free to find their dreams and live them. Each painting holds clues that reveal the era it depicts. Look for vintage autos and boats, or the evolving infrastructure and landscaping of the village itself. Phillips' fans know to look for an aircraft in his paintings; a friendly little nod to his other love, aviation. "A small town is like a pocket mirror reflecting events taking place in the world at large," says Bill. "This is where history really happens, in the families of our neighbors, in our own living rooms, over the course of decades." Today, Bill Phillips is a renowned aviation artist and the landscape artist of choice for many collectors. His work hangs in numerous public and private collections throughout the world. Bill's strengths as a landscape painter, a respect and reverence for a time and place, help him when painting aviation as well as classic landscapes. Phillips often spends days observing landscape subjects. Finding companionship with the land, he is able to convey the boundlessness of nature on the painted canvas inspiring a reverence for the natural landscape in its beholders. Over the course of his amazingly successful thirty-year career in aviation art, Phillips' thrilling portraits of military and civilian aircraft have placed him firmly at the top of this competitive field and garnered national recognition, including a one-man show at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in 1986. He is one of only a few artists to have been so honored. This retrospective show of over forty paintings subsequently toured the country to great acclaim. 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. 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. At least one of Phillips' works was chosen in the Top 100 each time he entered "Art for the Parks" — the prestigious annual fund-raiser for the National Park Service, and he received the Art History Award from the National Park Foundation several times. Phillips was selected as the Fall 2004 Artist in Residence at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon where his assignment included paintings to interpret the park's purpose as a place of pleasure and its importance as a national treasure. Phillips was also tapped by the U.S. Postal Service to paint the stamp illustrations and header design for a pane of twenty stamps in 1997 entitled Classic American Aircraft. He was chosen again in 2005 for a pane of twenty stamps (ten designs) entitled American Advances in Aviation. Bill's major collection of aviation art, Into the Sunlit Splendor, was published by The Greenwich Workshop Press in 2005. September 11, 2001, hit Phillips very hard emotionally. Out of his distress came the painting A Prayer for My Brother. Fine art prints of this piece have been placed in many fire departments across the country, with a portion of the proceeds going to help families of fallen firefighters. Bill is regularly invited to participate in the annual Masters of the American West Exhibition and Sale at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, an invitational for the top artists in the U.S. Bill is currently working on a large project documenting the Los Angeles Fire Department which will be placed in their museum. In October, 2013, Phillips was inducted into the Oregon Aviation Hall of Honor, along with Doolittle Raider co-pilot Robert Emmens. "In my work, I hope to convey to the viewer the beauty and exhilaration of flight." Bill Phillips' words speak of a goal which he renews with each painting. Indeed, Phillips' paintings often pull the viewer into the action by his technique of blurring the foreground. As the landscape rushes by, the viewer feels the exhilaration of which Phillips talks. William Phillips lives in Ashland, Oregon, with his wife, Kristy.-- The Greenwich Workshop Payment Information Methods of Payment color_lens We accept PayPal as our main form of payment. 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