Walter Joseph Phillips
(1884 - 1963) RCA
Previously Sold Works
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 )
Auction Estimate: $600.00 - $800.00
Price Realized $1,380.00
Sale date: May 29th 2014
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Our Street in Winnipeg
colour woodcut
signed in the lower right margin
3.5 x 6 ins ( 8.9 x 15.2 cms ) ( image )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $1,416.00
Sale date: July 18th 2018
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Planting a Zunuk
colour woodcut
signed, titled and numbered 48/150 in the lower margin
11.25 x 14 in ( 28.6 x 35.6 cm ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,000.00
Price Realized $1,440.00
Sale date: April 22nd 2025
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Teepees, Banff
photolithographic reproduction
13.5 x 20.5 ins ( 34.3 x 52.1 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $1,320.00
Sale date: February 28th 2023
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
The Diving Board
colour woodcut
initialed in the upper right of the plate; signed in the lower right margin
8.75 x 5.5 ins ( 22.2 x 14 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,200.00
Sale date: February 26th 2014
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Rushing River, Lake of the Woods (1931)
woodcut
signed in the lower margin
5.5 x 6.75 ins ( 14 x 17.1 cms ) ( subject )
Auction Estimate: $600.00 - $800.00
Price Realized $1,180.00
Sale date: February 21st 2018
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
The Clothes Line, Mamalilicoola
woodcut
signed and numbered 6/120 in the lower margin
4.75 x 4.75 ins ( 12.1 x 12.1 cms ) ( image )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $1,200.00
Sale date: December 13th 2022
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
A Winnipeg Street Snowbound
colour woodblock print
signed and numbered 119 in the lower margin
4.5 x 6.5 ins ( 11.4 x 16.5 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $1,062.00
Sale date: October 17th 2018
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Wild Cherry
colour woodblock
signed and numbered 188 in the lower margin
5.5 x 8.75 ins ( 14 x 22.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $900.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $978.00
Sale date: June 22nd 2016
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 )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $920.00
Sale date: May 29th 2014
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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.
