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WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS, R.C.A.
DEER ON THE HILLSIDE
watercolour
signed and dated ’52; an unfinished pencil sketch of a dock scene on the reverse
16.5 ins x 17.75 ins; 41.9 cms x 45.1 cms
Estimate $10,000-$15,000
Realised: $9,440
Price Includes Buyer's Premium
Literature:
Roger Boulet, The Tranquility and the Turbulence: The Life and Work of Walter J. Phillips, M.B. Loates Publishing, Markham, Ontario, 1981, pages 195 and 207 for the related watercolours Mount Rundle with Deer, 1953 and Rainbow Falls, circa 1938, reproduced in colour.
Nancy E. Green, Kate Rutherford and Toni Tomlinson, Walter J. Phillips, Pomegranate, Portland, Oregon, 2103 for an earlier colour woodcut of this subject entitled Deer on Hillside, 1948, page 95, reproduced in colour.
Provenance:
Private Collection, St. Catharines, Ontario