Walter Joseph (W.J.) Phillips
Walter Phillips was born in Lincolnshire, England in 1884. Trained at the Birmingham School of Art, he was a successful watercolour artist in England before he and his wife, Gladys, emigrated to Winnipeg in 1913. Although watercolour remained his primary medium, the wood block print was an enduring interest which brought his work to a wider audience. Among his best-known and loved images in watercolour and woodblock print are those which depict family holidays on Lake of the Woods from the teens until 1925. In 1940, Phillips was asked to be artist in residence at the Banff School of Fine Arts. He moved to Calgary in 1941 where he taught at the provincial Institute of Technology and Art. He died in 1963 leaving a legacy of uniquely Canadian art. Walter J. Phillips is recognised today as a master of the watercolour and the woodblock print medium and his work is eagerly collected. His works are housed in galleries across Canada, including The National Gallery of Canada, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies as well as collections abroad in London, Washington D.C., New Jersey, Japan, and private collections the world over. The most extensive private collection of work by Phillips was gifted to the city of Winnipeg. Permanently housed in the Pavilion Gallery Museum in Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park, the Crabb collection is available for public viewing year round.

Available Artwork
Moonlight, Lake of the Woods
- Woodcut on Paper
- 7 x 6 in
- 1927
- Price available on request
Prairie Township
- Watercolour on Paper
- 9.5 x 11 in
- circa 1930
- Price available on request
Swans
- Wood Engraving on Paper
- 3.5 x 3.7 in
- 1932
- Price available on request
Deep Cove
- Watercolour on Paper
- 14 x 21 in
- 1957
- Price available on request
The Source of the Bow
- Wood Engraving on Paper
- 6.4 x 4.1 in
- 1936
- Price available on request
Summer Idyll
- Woodcut on Paper
- 21.8 x 12.12 in
- 1926
- Price available on request
Bredon Village
- Woodcut on Paper
- 10.43 x 12.44 in
- 1928
- Price available on request
Venus and the Priest
- Woodcut on Paper
- 13.42 x 19.3 in
- 1930
- Price available on request
The Dock
- Woodcut on Paper
- 7.16 x 10.7 in
- 1922
- Price available on request
Above Lake Louise
- Woodcut on Paper
- 7.44 x 6.22 in
- 1945
- Price available on request
West Road (Mountain Road)
- Woodcut on Paper
- 9 x 13 in
- 1944
- Price available on request
Siwash House Posts
- Woodcut on Paper
- 8.85 x 6.25 in
- 1928
- Price available on request
The Bather
- Woodcut on Paper
- 8.75 x 9.75 in
- 1927
- Price available on request
The Mountain
- Woodcut on Paper
- 6.1 x 7.71 in
- 1927
- Price available on request
Field Barn
- Woodcut on Paper
- 9 x 10 in
- 1925
- Price available on request
Norman Bay 2
- Woodcut on Paper
- 8.77 x 9.84 in
- 1922
- Price available on request
The Bather
- Woodcut on Paper
- 10.9 x 7.36 in
- 1923
- Price available on request
Norman Bay, Lake of the Woods
- Woodcut on Paper
- 11.49 x 8.38 in
- 1920
- Price available on request
The Diving Board
- Woodcut on Paper
- 8.66 x 5.6 in
- 1930
- Price available on request
Engineer's House and South Wall
- Wood Engraving on Paper
- 3.1 x 4.6 in
- 1931
- Price available on request
The Bear
- Wood Engraving on Paper
- 4.56 x 4 in
- 1936
- Price available on request
Beaver Lodge
- Woodcut on Paper
- 7.4 x 14.7 in
- 1944
- Price available on request
Summer Night
- Woodcut on Paper
- 6.96 x 9.48 in
- 1931
- Price available on request
Exceptional Sales
Floating Dock, Mamalilicoola, B.C.
- Mixed Media
- 20.75 x 16 in
- 1927
- Sold
Lake McArthur, Canadian Rockies
- Watercolour on Paper
- 11.75 x 13.9 in
- circa 1926
- Sold
Mamalilicoola, British Columbia
- Woodcut on Paper
- 10 x 12 in
- 1928
- Sold
York Boat on Lake Winnipeg
- Woodcut on Paper
- 10.2 x 13.7 in
- 1930
- Sold
Little Log House
- Watercolour on Paper
- 8 x 9.75 in
- circa 1920
- Sold
Seven Sisters Falls
- Watercolour on Paper
- 12 x 14 in
- circa 1926
- Sold
Bow Falls, Banff
- Watercolour on Paper
- 10 x 15 in
- circa 1936
- Sold
Deer at Rainbow Falls
- Watercolour on Paper
- 15 x 21.5 in
- 1941
- Sold
Wapta Falls
- Watercolour on Paper
- 15.75 x 19.5 in
- 1949
- Sold
Jack Pine
- Woodcut on Paper
- 8.8 x 9.8 in
- 1940
- Sold
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