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Phillips, Tom, 1937-2022

 Person

Nationality

British

Found in 1272 Collections and/or Records:

RA (The Royal Academy Magazine): Special Tibetan Art Issue. No.36/Fall / Phillips T., 1992

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Identifier: CC-03545-3609
Scope and Contents

The exhibition of Tom Phillips "Major Works 1970-92" is previewed on page 16. The works "reveal an artist whose concern for the visual is underwritten by an understanding of the intellectual and sensual." Featured in the show are paintings from A Humument, The Inferno, The Curriculum Vitae Series which are also held by the Sackner Archive. Also mentioned are Phillips' exhibitions The Quest for Identity" at the V&A and "Graphics" at Flowers East and a concert by Phillips at the ICA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Radio Appearances: :Kaleidoscope; Nightwaves / Tom Phillips., 1992

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Identifier: CC-04357-4439
Scope and Contents

These recordings, "Kaleidoscope" on Radio 4 and "Nightwaves" on Radio 3 in London, consist of interviews of Tom Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Raphael Revisited / Phillips, Tom., 2010

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Identifier: CC-54970-990382
Scope and Contents

The image after a painting by Raphael was created according to the proportions of the Golden Section (square root of 2). The lines making up these divisions are invisible in this emlarged second version of the print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Rara Avis, 1967

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Identifier: CC-04792-4883
Scope and Contents

This drawing was removed from a page in Furnival's Liber Amicorum, 1964-1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Readers: Vintage People on Photo Postcards / Phillips, Tom., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52376-73499
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips provided an introductory essay and David Lodge a foreward. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Recent Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings / Phillips, Tom ; Russell J., 1973

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Identifier: CC-38872-40798
Scope and Contents

John Russell contributed an introductory essay that analyzed Phillips' painting "Benches" as well as "A Humument." "Oh, those reds," a painting from 1969 to 1973, that is depicted in black & white in the catalogue is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Rejected Cover Design For Hansjorg Mayer 1979 Catalogue, 1979

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Identifier: CC-54410-52461
Scope and Contents

This drawing was rejected for the cover design by Hansjorg Mayer because it was too complcated for a book cover. Thepoem reads "I had come about art - after only one readingi was able to tell her, - it was a Journal of secret scribing and hiding a work of fiction - interspersed wit used art - read the toge story - there are certain scenes and feelings" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Review by Elaine Sexton / Phillips, Tom., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52006-73108
Scope and Contents

The opening of this exhibition at Flowers Gallery in New York was attended by the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Reworks 1968-1993 / Cross, Doris ; Phillips T ; Grumman B ; Berman W., 1993

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Identifier: CC-40319-42290
Scope and Contents

In an introductory essay, the exhibition curator Jim Edwards, compares Cross' dictionary work to Tom Phillips' "A Humument." He further indicates that the artist he most equates Doris Cross to is Wallace Berman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Rodin: Stone Made Flesh / Phillips, Tom., 1988

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Identifier: CC-03969-4044
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips' review of "Rodin A Biography" by Frederic V. Grunfeld. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Rooted to the Spot / Graham-Dixon, Andrew; Phillips T., 1992

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Identifier: CC-10379-10582
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips is quoted with regard to his criticism of a BBC program on Piero della Francesca. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Sacred and Profane - Drawing to a Conclusion / Phillips, Tom ; Rosenthal N ; Hurrell B., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28703-30006
Scope and Contents

This exhibition catalogue was published on the occasion of two exhibitions running concurrently in London in celebration of Phillips' 60th birthday year. The Sackners attended the opening exhibition at the South London Gallery. The new works there consisted of treated skulls, quilts, picture poems, and word sculptures. Older works were exhibited at the Dulwich gallery including portraits, drawings, and collages. In addition, and not illustrated in this catalogue, the panels of Phillips' "Dante Diary" (lent by the Sackners) were also exhibited. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Schism Skin Game / Phillips, Tom., 1983

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Identifier: CC-54976-990384
Scope and Contents

This image is taken from Phillips illustration of Dante's Inferno, Canto XXVIII/3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983