(a beautiful overview of Phillips’ work, life, and style)
(a nice book he illustrated for Thomas Nelson, 1947)
(his rare signature in a/this book)
(Bow Falls, Banff, AB)
(Lake Louise: Dawn)
(Kicking Horse River, AB)
Walter J. Phillips–Joseph (1884-1963) was born in Lincolnshire, England and moved to Winnipeg in 1913 where he lived for 28 years after that. Phillips was a watercolourist, a woodcut artist, and a printer. His subject matter was MB lakes and rivers, the prairies, and the Rocky Mountains. His delightful work can be seen in galleries in Banff and Winnipeg (the latter in Assiniboine Park’s Pavillion).
To die for: the wonderful oversized coffee-table book pictured above, Roger Boulet’s impressive The Tranquility and the Turbulence: The Life and Works of Walter J. Phillips.