Walter Joseph Phillips (Canadian 1884-1963)
The Waterfront, Alert Bay, British Columbia
colour woodcut on Goyu paper, editioned lower left "255" signed lower right "W J Phillips" and monogramed in plate. Printed on Goyu paper from six cherry-wood blocks, this is the first print in the 1928 portfolio of seven colour prints entitled The Canadian Scene. This work is from an edition of 300. Literature: Roger Boulet, The Tranquility and the Turbulence, 1981, reproduced page 98.
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 The Waterfront, Alert Bay and Siwash House Posts, Tsatsisnukomi, BC, 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: 6 ¾ h x 8 ¾ w in (with frame 12 ½ h x 14 ½ w in)
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