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Lot #133

Artist Walter Joseph Phillips
Title Mount Field
Media watercolour on paper
Dated 1937
Size 13.5 x 11.5 in. / 34.3 x 29.2 cm.
Frame Size 21.25 x 19.25 x 0.75 in.

Place Absentee Bid

Notes
signed lower right; bears title and date on gallery label verso; framed with archival mat

Reference
illustrated on page 96 in Colour in the Canadian Rockies by W.J. Phillips and Frederick Niven, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1937)

Provenance
Canada House Gallery, Banff, label verso; from the Estate of Dr. Joan Snyder, a prominent Calgary philanthropist; proceeds from this work will help fulfill Joan's wishes to support the University of Calgary. To read more about Dr. Joan Snyder, visit the University of Calgary's Memoriam

Sold $23,400 Estimate $8,000/$10,000

Biographical Information
Walter Joseph Phillips ~ [1884-1963] Canadian ASA, CPE, CSPWC, MSA, RCA
for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at 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;


biography and other examples in
N.G.C. Vol. III, by Robert Hubbard, pg. 247; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg. 365

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