Artist Walter Joseph Phillips
Title Untitled - To the Hunt
Media watercolour on paper
Size 14 x 21 in. / 35.6 x 53.3 cm.
Frame Size 24.5 x 31 x 2 in.

Notes
unsigned; framed with archival mat

Reference
bears inscription 'W.J. Phillips - My father, Thomas Matheson, was a friend of Walter and Gladys Phillips over a period of about 50 years. He first met Mr. Phillips in the late 20's when my father was a student at Banff School of Fine Arts. As my father was a salesman for a drug company during the Depression, he travelled extensively across Canada, visiting Walt and Gladys whenever he was in Winnipeg. Through the Phillips he met several other members of the Canadian artist community including Frederick Varley, Franklin Carmichael and Lauren Harris. Our families remained good friends and my parents visited often first in Winnipeg, then later in Calgary and in Banff. In 1936, in London, my parents visited Y. Urushibara, the Japanese artist whom Mr. Phillips credited with teaching him the technique of the colour woodcut. Throughout the time that my father knew Mr. Phillips, he bought a great number of watercolours and woodcuts from him. The Phillips often stayed with our family when they visited Vancouver. In 1964, the year after Mr. Phillips died, I wrote an essay on him for a Fine Arts course I was taking at the University of British Columbia. I sent a copy of the essay to Mrs. Phillips and in recognition of this she gave me a print of Summer Idyll which I still have. My husband and I last visited Mrs. Phillips in the mid-seventies at her home in Victoria. - Lee Matheson Gary' verso

Provenance
purchased directly from the artist; corporate collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$8,000-$10,000

Artist Walter Joseph Phillips
Title Near Devon
Media watercolour on paper
Dated ca.  1912
Size 8.5 x 9.75 in. / 21.6 x 24.8 cm.
Frame Size 19.75 x 20.5 x 1 in.

Notes
signed lower right; bears title and date on label verso; framed

Provenance
private collection, Alberta
Estimate CAD$2,000-$4,000

Artist Walter Joseph Phillips
Title Gimli No. 2 #2/100
Media colour wood block on paper
Dated 1935
Size 8 x 10 in. / 20.3 x 25.4 cm.
Frame Size 16.5 x 18 x 0.5 in.

Notes
signed in block lower left; signed, titled and numbered along bottom; framed with archival mat; some yellowing noted upper left

Reference
Scott CW#115; MBL #209 ed:100

Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$1,500-$2,500

Artist Walter Joseph Phillips
Title The Floating Dock, Mamalilicoola
Media wood engraving on paper
Dated 1930
Size 6 x 5 in. / 15.2 x 12.7 cm.
Frame Size 9.5 x 8.25 x 0.75 in.

Notes
unsigned; bears title and date on backing; framed

Reference
Scott WE#10; MBL #145 ed:120; from Essays in Wood portfolio; Community Houses, Mamalilicoola

Provenance
private collection, British Columbia
Estimate CAD$900-$1,200

Artist Walter Joseph Phillips
Title Mistaya Valley [Peyto Lake]
Media wood engraving on paper
Dated 1937
Size 4.25 x 6.25 in. / 10.8 x 15.9 cm.
Frame Size 12 x 14 x 1 in.

Notes
signed along bottom; framed with archival mat

Reference
Scott WE#61; MBL #220B second state [1954], ed: unknown; Christmas card for 1954

Provenance
Loch Mayberry Fine Art Inc., Winnipeg, label verso; private collection, Alberta
Estimate CAD$900-$1,200