Walter Joseph Phillips
(1884 - 1963) RCA
Artwork from the 1940s
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Corral at Banff
colour woodcut
signed lower right; Condition Noted
4.5 x 3.75 ins ( 11.4 x 9.5 cms ) ( sight )
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
West Road, Mountain Road
colour woodcut
signed, titled, numbered 12/100 and inscribed ‘to John’ in the lower margin; titled and dated 1942 on a gallery label on the reverse
8.7 x 13 ins ( 22.1 x 33 cms ) ( plate size )
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Trail from Skoki
colour woodcut
signed in the lower right margin
3.5 x 4 ins ( 8.9 x 10.2 cms )
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Beaver Lodge
colour woodcut
signed, titled and numbered 11/100 in the lower margin
7.75 x 15 ins ( 19.7 x 38.1 cms ) ( sight
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WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Kincardine, Ontario
watercolour
signed and dated 1946 lower right
12.25 x 16 ins ( 31.1 x 40.6 cms )
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Rundle, Winter
colour woodcut
signed and titled in the lower margin; titled, dated 1949 and numbered 200/300 on a gallery label on the backing on the reverse
5 x 6.75 ins ( 12.7 x 17.1 cms ) ( plate size )
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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.
