Walter Joseph Phillips
(1884 - 1963) RCA
Previously Sold Works
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Eckington Bridge
woodblock print
signed and titled within the lower margin
From an edition of 52 copies, issued only to Associate Members of the Society of Painter-Etchers for 1929.
6 x 8 ins ( 15.2 x 20.3 cms ) ( image )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $920.00
Sale date: June 14th 2017
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Rain, Lake of the woods
colour woodcut
signed and numbered 188 in the lower margin
5.25 x 8.75 ins ( 13.3 x 22.2 cms ) ( subject )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $944.00
Sale date: July 18th 2018
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Mount Nicholas
woodblock
4.75 x 5.5 ins ( 12.1 x 14 cms )
Auction Estimate: $600.00 - $800.00
Price Realized $863.00
Sale date: March 1st 2013
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Our Street
colour woodcut
initialed within the plate; signed and titled within the lower margin; the woodcut attached at two points to the cover of a “Season’s Greeting” card, the card inscribed “from Gladys and Walter J. Phillips”
3.5 x 6 ins ( 8.9 x 15.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $840.00
Sale date: February 19th 2015
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Wylye Mill Bridge
colour woodcut
signed, titled and numbered 13/100 in the lower margin
8.50 x 9.75 ins ( 21.6 x 24.8 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $826.00
Sale date: June 2nd 2020
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Five Christmas Cards containing Engravings
engravings
Lower Fort Garry (4.5 ins x 3 ins); The Church on the Hill (4.5 ins x 3 ins); The 60th Rifles (4.5 ins x 3 ins); St. Andrews Anglican Church (5.5 ins x 3.75 ins); The Sundial, Lower Fort Garry (4.5 ins x 3.25 ins)
4.5 x 3 ins ( 11.4 x 7.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $780.00
Sale date: February 26th 2014
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Valley of the Ten Peaks (1930)
woodcut
signed in the lower right margin
4.75 x 6.5 ins ( 12.1 x 16.5 cms ) ( subject )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $767.00
Sale date: February 21st 2018
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Mount Eisenhower
sampson matthews silkscreen
30 x 40 ins ( 76.2 x 101.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $600.00 - $800.00
Price Realized $780.00
Sale date: February 23rd 2021
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Valley of the Ten Peaks
sampson matthews silkscreen
inscribed “Supervised by A.J. Casson” lower left; titled in the lower margin; unframed
19.75 x 26.75 ins ( 50.2 x 67.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $720.00
Sale date: September 21st 2016
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Snake Island, Lake Winnipeg (1931)
woodcut
signed in the margin
5.25 x 7.75 ins ( 13.3 x 19.7 cms ) ( subject )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $708.00
Sale date: February 21st 2018
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS
La Rivière, MB
woodblock
4.75 x 5 ins ( 12.1 x 12.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $800.00
Price Realized $633.00
Sale date: June 18th 2013
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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.
