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Lot #136

Artist Walter Joseph Phillips
Title Pom Poms
Media colour wood block on paper
Dated 1928
Size 3.75 x 3.25 in. / 9.5 x 8.3 cm.
Frame Size 13 x 11.5 x 1 in.

Place Absentee Bid

Notes
signed with monogram in block lower left; signed along bottom; framed with archival mat

Reference
Scott CW#89; MBL #124 ed: unknown; included in Winter Wood Cuts portfolio [ed:100] of 1936; Christmas card for 1928)

Provenance
private collection, Banff

Sold $2,340 Estimate $700/$900

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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