Walter Joseph Phillips (Canadian 1884-1963)
Siwash House Posts, Tsatsisnukomi, British Columbia
colour woodcut on Goyu paper, editioned lower left "49" signed lower right " W J Phillips" and monogrammed in the plate Literature: Roger Boulet, The Tranquility and the Turbulence, 1981, reproduced page 99, as well as the 1927 graphite drawing and the watercolour for this work. Roger Boulet, Walter J. Phillips, The Complete Graphic Works, 1981, reproduced page 297.
Walter J Phillips' first trip to the West Coast was in the summer of 1927 when he visited Alert Bay and Village Island providing inspiration for some of his best loved woodblock prints. Both of these 1928 woodblock prints Siwash House Posts, Tsatsisnukomi, BC and The Waterfront, Alert Bay, were inspired by this trip. Phillips wrote of his time on the coast “these villages cannot be disassociated from their setting- the mountains and sea which surround them, and the clouds which alternately reveal and obliterate them, wholly or in part”. With under ten percent of Phillips' colour woodcuts being of West Coast subjects this is a wonderful opportunity to see two together.
Size: 8 h x 6 ¼ w in (with frame 16 ¼ h x 13 w in)
ZJ21049
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