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Nationality
  
Canadian

Name
  
Walter Phillips

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Born
  
October 25, 1884
Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, England.

Known for
  
painter woodcutter, printmaker

Died
  
July 5, 1963, Victoria, Canada

Books
  
The Tranquility and the Turbulence, Walter J. Phillips : the Complete Graphic Works

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Walter Joseph Phillips (October 25, 1884 – July 5, 1963) was an English-born Canadian painter and printmaker. He is credited with popularizing the colour woodcut in the style of the Japanese, in Canada.

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Life

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Phillips was born in Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, England. As a youth, he studied at the Birmingham School of Art. After studying abroad in South Africa and Paris, he worked as a commercial artist in England. In June 1913 he moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he lived for more than 28 years. Phillips died in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1963.

Career

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Phillips is famous for his woodcuts and watercolour sketches. His artistic career spanned from the 1900s through the 1940s, during which time his work was exhibited throughout North America and Great Britain. Common subjects for Phillips included the lakes of Manitoba—York Boat on Lake Winnipeg (1930) is a well-known print—the prairies, and in his later years, the Rocky Mountains, where his ashes were scattered.

In 1940 he was asked to become a resident artist at the Banff Centre, then known as the Banff School of Fine Arts, where he played an important role in the development of their visual arts program. Its Walter Phillips Gallery, which focuses on contemporary art, is named after him. The Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta holds an extensive collection of Phillips works and a research archive.

He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Recognition

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On 17 February 1997 Canada Post issued 'York Boat on Lake Winnipeg, 1930, Walter J. Phillips' in the Masterpieces of Canadian art series. The stamp was designed by Pierre-Yves Pelletier based on a woodcut "York Boat on Lake Winnipeg" (1930) by Walter Joseph Phillips in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. The 90¢ stamps are perforated 12.5 X 13 and were printed by Ashton-Potter Canada Limited. On May 26, 2010, Phillips' print 'Summer Idyll' reached $ 30,109 USD at an auction at Hefel Fine Art.

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References

Walter J. Phillips Wikipedia


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