Walter J. Phillips, York Boat on Lake Winnipeg (1930)

Walter Joseph Phillips is yet another unquestioned master of magnificent woodcut images of the Canadian landscape.  He often printed his artwork in color inks rather than just black ink as used by many of his contemporaries working in the same medium.  Although born in England, he settled in Canada as a youth and resided in Winnipeg, Manitoba for much of his life (the same place, coincidentally, chosen as a newfound home by another exceptional Canadian woodcut artist and fellow European immigrant, Eric Bregman).  Phillips produced the bulk of his work from the late 1910s through the 1940s.  In many of his images of the Canadian west he situated people within the scene, providing both a sense of scale and nice human emotional element.

Walter J. Phillips, Mount Cathedral & Mount Stephan (1928)

Walter J. Phillips, Lake of the Woods (1931)

Walter J. Phillips, Red River Jig (1931)

Walter J. Phillips, The Clothesline –Mamalilicoola (B.C.) (1930)

Walter J. Phillips, The Stump (1928)