Walter Joseph Phillips
(1884 - 1963) RCA
Artwork from the 1920s
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Suburban Street
colour woodcut
signed in the margin
4.25 x 6.75 ins ( 10.8 x 17.1 cms )
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
The Cloud (The Lake of the Woods)
watercolour
signed lower right; titled and dated “c. 1920” to a gallery label on the reverse
6.25 x 9.25 ins ( 15.9 x 23.5 cms ) ( sight )
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
The Angler
colour woodcut
signed and inscribed 12 in the margin, unframed
4.5 x 3 ins ( 11.4 x 7.6 cms )
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Alpine Meadow
colour woodcut
signed and titled in the margin, unframed
3.25 x 4 ins ( 8.3 x 10.2 cms )
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Summer Idyll
colour woodcut, mounted to card
signed, titled and numbered 40/100 in the lower margin; dated 1926 within the plate
18 x 12 ins ( 45.7 x 30.5 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $15,000.00 - $20,000.00
Price Realized $18,000.00
Sale date: December 3rd 2020
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Sunset, Lake of the Woods
colour woodcut
signed and inscribed “83” in pencil in the lower margin
7.25 x 8.25 ins ( 18.4 x 21 cms ) ( plate )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $4,012.00
Sale date: November 19th 2019
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Siwash House Posts, Tsatsisnukomi, BC
colour woodcut
signed and numbered “260” in the lower margin; titled, dated and numbered to a gallery label on the reverse
8.5 x 6.5 ins ( 21.6 x 16.5 cms ) ( sight )
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Siwash House Posts, Tsatsisnukomi, B.C.
colour woodcut
signed lower right and numbered "170" lower left in the margin; titled and dated 1928 on a label on the reverse
8 x 6.25 in ( 20.3 x 15.9 cm ) ( image )
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W.J. Phillips Biography
(1884 - 1963) RCA
W.J. Phillips was born in Lincolnshire, England in 1884. Trained at the Birmingham School of Art, he was a successful watercolour artist in England before he and his wife, Gladys, emigrated to Winnipeg in 1913. Although watercolour remained his primary medium, the woodblock print was an enduring interest which brought his work to a wider audience. Among W.J. Phillips’ best-known and loved images in watercolour and woodblock print are those which depict family holidays on Lake of the Woods from the teens until 1925. In 1940, Walter Phillips was asked to be artist in residence at the Banff School of Fine Arts. He moved to Calgary in 1941 where he taught at the provincial Institute of Technology and Art.
W.J. Phillips’ works are housed in galleries across Canada including The National Gallery of Canada, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies as well as collections abroad in London, Washington D.C., New Jersey, Japan, and private collections the world over. The most extensive private collection of work by Phillips was gifted to the city of Winnipeg. Permanently housed in the Pavilion Gallery Museum in Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park, the Crabb collection is available for public viewing year round.
