Artist Walter Joseph Phillips
Title Norman Bay [Number Two] #97/100
Media colour wood block on paper
Dated
1923
Size 8.75 x 9.75 in. / 22.2 x 24.8 cm.
Frame Size 18.5 x 10 x 2 in.
Sold $1,200
Estimate $1,500 - $2,000
Notes
signed with monogram and dated in block lower right; signed, titled and numbered along bottom; framed with archival mat
Reference
Scott CW#40; MBL #72 ed:100; exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy, 1923
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Walter Joseph Phillips ~ [1884-1963] Canadian ASA, CPE, CSPWC, MSA, RCA
Phillips, whose father was a Welsh clergyman, was born in Barton-on-Humber in Lincolnshire, England in 1884. He arrived in Winnipeg with his wife, Gladys, after spending 5 years in South Africa and then working as a teacher and commercial artist in England. For a detailed biography and examples of Phillips work see the website wjphillips.ca
See Walter J. Phillips, by Duncan Campbell Scott [Scott#], published by Ryerson Press, 1947; Walter J. Phillips, A Selection of His Works and Thoughts, by Michael J. Gribbon, published by N.G.C., 1978; The Tranquility and the Turbulence: The Life and Works of Walter J. Phillips, by Roger H. Boulet [MBL#], published by Loates, 1981; Phillips in Print, edited by Douglas Cole and Maria Tippett, published by Manitoba Records Society, 1982; Truth and Beauty in the Canadian Rockies, An Explorer's Guide to the Art of Walter J. Phillips, by Lisa Christensen, Fifth House Publishers, 2019; included in N.G.C. Vol. III, by Robert Hubbard, pg. 247; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg. 365