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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 281

Walter Joseph Phillips "A Winnipeg Street Snow-Bound" Woodcut

Estimate: $500 - $1,000
Starting Bid
$250

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Hand-signed lower right below the monogram block. Numbered lower left. 

Limited Edition: 121/250

 

Image: 6 1/2" Wide x 5" Tall 

Frame: 11 3/4" Wide x 10" Tall 

 

Condition: Toning to the paper, consistent with sunlight exposure. Minor fading to the colors. Marks to the frame. Please see images for details. 

 

Artist Bio: Walter Joseph Phillips (1884-1963) was born in Barton-on-Humber, England, trained at the Birmingham School of Art, and emigrated to Winnipeg in 1913, where he taught and began the work that made him one of Canada's most important printmakers. Largely self taught in the medium, he adopted the Japanese method of color woodcut, cutting a separate block for each color and printing by hand with water based pigments, and in 1926 he published The Technique of the Colour Woodcut, a manual that brought the process to a wide audience.

His subjects were the Canadian landscape: prairie farms and lakes in Manitoba, the cottage country of the Lake of the Woods, and later the Rocky Mountains around Banff, where he taught at the Banff School of Fine Arts. He brought the same quiet economy to buildings and streets as to wilderness, using a few flat planes of color to carry weather, season and light. "A Winnipeg Street Snow-Bound" turns that eye on the city where he lived and worked for close to three decades.

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