David Phillips (sculptor)

Phillips also won, along with landscape architect Craig Halvorson, an award from the Cambridge Art Council's Public Art Program in 1997 to design a sculpture and park for Quincy Square.

Another distinct feature of Phillips' work is his incorporation of playful bronze-cast animals, such as frogs, snails, fish, and turtles in public landscape and fountains in public parks, for which he has been working with landscape architects since the early 1990s.

In 1968 Phillips received a Charles Stewart Mott Foundation grant to study and travel in Europe. In 1985, sponsored by the United States Information Agency (USIA), Phillips traveled to Japan to exhibit his work in Nagoya and Tokyo. Other awards include a MacDowell (artists' residency and workshop) in 1977 and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1999. Phillips obtained an award from Boston Landmarks Commission for the Dr. Melvin Lederman Vietnam War Memorial.

Phillips earned a BFA in 1967 at Cranbrook Academy of Art where he majored in painting and minored in sculpture.  He continued his studies at Cranbrook, receiving his MFA in 1969, where he studied bronze and iron casting under Julius Schmidt and ceramics with Richard DeVore.

David L. Phillips (born January 8, 1944, in Flint, Michigan) is an American sculptor best known for his public artwork including large bronze sculptures. Phillips has been described as a "Sculptor to Nature" because his work often combines cut stones with bronze castings in a natural setting. He also made a half dozen sculptures spread over 50 acres of the forest in New Hampshire. They range from "Toothed Stone" to the delicate placing of bronze molded leaves atop a granite fieldstone and a boulder inlaid with a whimsical bronze face.