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Walter J. Phillips and the Lake of the Woods – Part II

07 Saturday Dec 2019

Posted by Roger H. Boulet in Canadian art

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At Lake of the Woods  (Part Two)

In 1919, after World War I, the Phillips family first summered at Gull Harbour on Lake Winnipeg, while Walter taught at the University of Wisconsin for his second summer. The family was back at the Lake of the Woods for the summer of 1920, when they rented a cottage on Keewatin Beach belonging to a Mr. Bains. This was to be their summer dwelling every year until 1924 and from 1926 to 1929, the year the Great Depression began. That year Phillips’ eldest son John was apprenticed to Brigden’s of Winnipeg, an art, photography and engraving firm.

Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
Whitefish Bay, Lake of the Woods, 1919
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 50)
14.1 x 20.3 cm

‘The Lake’

The Phillps family loved the Lake of the Woods, and the artist left many written comments about ‘the lake.’ He also described his approach to its unique landscape in a number of texts, which are primary documents for his work at this time in both the watercolour and the colour woodcut medium. Many of Walter J. Phillips own observations are quoted extensively here.

On the prairies, the entire professional class summers at ‘the lake’, which is one of the most beautiful of God’s creations. It is no lake in particular. Every man is prepared to assert the superior beauty of his own. They build houses of sufficient comfort close to the water’s edge, with wide verandahs to diminish the effects of the heat, and open fireplaces within to augment it. A boathouse is the complement of each dwelling–an imposing structure, maybe, with bedrooms and baclony above, or the term may be rhetorical, and applies only to a crazy contraption of planks that serves as a landing, a diving platform, or a refuge for the lone canoe.

Our cottage at Lake of the Woods is built upon a rock, a round mass of granite jutting out into the lake, and bare of vegetation save for a grove of young jack-pines and a wild cherry tree or two. The verandah faces the sunrise, the sunset, and the northern sky, and the back-door opens on the forest. There is a miniature cove with a sandy bottom, and a ramshackle boat-house beside it. We spent the summer months here, and each night were lulled to sleep by the soothing night-cadences of the waters and the woods.

The village is two miles away over the water, but there are other cottages within call, and numerous islands in the bay. Every day brings new adventures, whether we set out in the canoe on a short excursion, or in the launch for a long one. The map pinned on the wall is a tantalizing document, as most maps are, and if there is any sense of nomenclature. The adjacent lakes and the streams spread out upon it are all alluring to the last degreee. One canoe route leads from Clearwater Bay through Granite Lake, the Lake of the Two Mountains, Moss, Bear Mountain, Crow, Duck and Rush Lakes, back to the starting point. Desirable places; who would not wish to see them? (5)

Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
Two Lakes, 1921
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 50)
21.5 x 34.7 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
Long Bay, Keewatin, 1922
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 50)
18.5 x 35.7 cm

One wonders why relatively few artists have worked at the Lake of the Woods. Paul Kane camped there in 1846 and Frederick Verner in 1873. Much later, Frank Johnston worked there too starting in 1921, when he took on the Directorship of the art school in Winnipeg, the year of his break with the Group of Seven. He sketched there with Phillips.

But like the prairies, many artists have found the terrain a bit monotonous.

Many who have traveled regard the Lake of the woods as a scenic trifle. The monotony of outlook, where every island, every headland and every bay seem the same, deceives only the casual or the dyspeptic observer. I am always glad to be back there and, wherever I may have been, feel tempted to record some of the beauty that is everywhere apparent beside those peaceful waters. This lake is dependent for interest on such decorative trivialities as tree-traceries, sunlight and shadow, lichen-covered rocks and translucent water.

If the lake wants in magnificence, if its waters lack the rhythmic movements of the sea, if its islands have not been pushed up very far, it still appeals with an intimacy that makes every rock and every tree a possible shrine of beauty. Here, the pictorial interest, more often than not, centres in the foreground, in an arabesque of branches, a pattern of foliage, or rocks, and frequently boathouses, docks and boats and perhaps their reflections. (6)

Norman Bay (Number 2)
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
Norman Bay (Number 2), 1922
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 100)
22.3 x 25 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
Crowe’s Island, Lake of the Woods, 1919
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 50)
25.5 x 12.3 cm

More than one landscape painter has confessed that the lake is uninteresting. It is true that the country around is distressingly flat, almost as flat as the water, though on a higher plane. Yet beauty is everywhere apparent.

There are the trees– the jack-pine, though a shapeless thing, disposing its drooping branches in grotesque but graceful curves, the birch, whose opalescent bole reflects the colours of surrounding things; the poplar, with twisted branching, delightfully capricious, and dancing leaves, – a medley of dark green discs, spinning golden guineas, oval mirrors the colour of the sky, and, when the light shines through, instead of upon or athwart them, golden green; the pines, with wheel-shaped bunches of dark-green needles, making a splendid foil for the rest.

There is the water – rivers and rapids, modest falls, gently rippling water whose elusive forms are difficult to follow. I know a dream river, created for canoes and landscape painters. Trees overshadow it, and water-lilies bloom below its banks. It is clear and deep and narrow. No wind disturbs its serenity. All the way up one hears the rising music of its falls, and eventually one’s eyes are blessed with the sight of them.

There are the islands, and there is the open sky, which is more beautiful than the dweller in the mountains imagines.

Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
The Island, 1918
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 50)
12.6 x 23.7 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
Flying Island, 1922
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 50)
25.2 x 23.7 cm

Trees

The monotony of outlook at the lake where very island seems the same deceives only the casual observer. It palls on the painter of unusual, dramatic, or cataclysmic effects; it even wearies the average sketcher, until he has adjusted his perception to its restrictions. He grows tired of portraying trees, rocks and rippling water, in perpetual sunshine; he is limited sadly in the possible variations of his themes. Moreover, he is mostly forced to remain at water-level. In spite of their variety in detail, his pictures bear a family resemblance. He hesitates to bring too numerous a progeny.

On first acquaintance with the lake the artist starts with a conventional landscape, with his horizon a third of the way up or down the panel, a tree in full stature about a third of the way across, reflected in the water, and a foreground of rock and vegetation. His next sketch differs to the extent of two trees instead of one.  Bye and bye he moves his horizon, later he leaves it out altogether.

Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
Rain, Lake of the Woods, 1927
woodcut on Goyu paper (edition: 250)
13.4 x 22.6 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
The Stump, 1928
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 300)
17.1 x 23 cm

He learns to amputate the trees, showing perhaps only their crowns, with flying clouds behind, or only the roots sprawling grotesquely in a litter of brown pine needles.

[Narcisse] Diaz first had the courage to paint truncated trees. His first effort was regarded as quite a joke. He would ask visitors if they had seen his latest stem.

Going one better than Diaz in the matter of trees, the artist in desperation, inverts them, that is, he paints reflections in the lake, with only a strip of the shore showing in the composition. Meanwhile he has done them from above and below.

Then he yearns for something new. The water attracts him, not as a vehicle for suicide, but as a spectacle with decided pictorial possibilities, never still, never the same, reflecting something in every state, and moving rhythmically.”

On open water the reflections of the sky on the nearer ripples are a fascinating study. Sometimes clouds appear upon it, as a multitude of small ovals, enveloping others of different colour or tone, in form resembling the concentricities of a cut agate. They appear and vanish in a flash, and dance with an abandon that inspires all beholders. There is the sheen of the sun on the ripples – countless images of the sun that dazzle and glitter – with a blinding brilliance impossible to reproduce in pigments.

Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
The Dock, 1922
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 100)
18.2 x 27.2 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884 – 1963)
Poplar Bay, Lake of the Wood, 1930
colour woodcut, edition: 100
23.9 x 33.5 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
Moonlight, Lake of the Woods, 1927
woodcut on Goyu paper (edition: 250)
18.7 x 15.4 cm

The Light

Phillips was always entranced by the light of Canada. And while he did paint a number of nocturnes, as any landscape painter must, it was the bright light that held his attention.

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Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
Lake of the Woods, 1931
colour woodcut
16.4 x 23.9 cm
edition: 200

At the lake the sun is nearly always shining, creating sharp shadows, sparkling lights, and a definite divergence between cool and warm colours. The atmosphere also tends to define the whole landscape with a clarity and a strength unknown in damper climates. Distances that would be blue elsewhere, here retain their local colours, and the blues are driven to a more distant horizon. There is little or no haze to suggest mystery and breadth… (7)

And he never failed to be interested in beautiful sunsets either, always spectacular at the Lake of the Woods.

Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
The Path of Gold, 1919
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 50)
12.4 x 25.3 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
The Golden Hour, 1918
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 50)
17.3 x 16.3 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
Sunset, Lake of the Woods, 1928
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 300)
18.2 x 21.3 cm

Clouds

The evening sky over the end of the bay is laced with the wisps of golden cloud that Turner loved to paint. The moon is low on the horizon. We are between the sun and the moon, and this is the golden hour. The suffusion of golden light creates soft harmonies and in a measure mitigates the chromatic crimes our neighbours have committed on their boat-houses. The shadows are cool and enhance the brilliance of the light.

The wispy clouds deepen to crimson as we sit. A fine sunset. It is often remarked that sunsets are rarely painted, although artists must be aware that such are the only phenomena observed by the common man, save the earthquake and the blizzard. A crimson sky is hard to ignore. It is lovely, considered in relation with the whole vault of the heavens, and the visible earth, but crude and strident in itself, without context. Generally the eastern sky discloses a subtler beauty which one often is too preoccupied to see. The perception and the enjoyment of colour in nature is not for the man with an untutored vision, however keen it may be. Only the sunset was made for him. And for the painter with pride, an immense replica of his own perverted fancies is set up in the sky. “No arrogant man,” said Constable, “is allowed to see nature in all her beauty.” Turner painted many sunsets, the most famous in pictorial art. He employed invariably a very wide angle of vision as an aid in the expression of grandeur. His reds were concentrated in small areas, and they shone with deceiving intensity. But time and the London air have played havoc with his work. His reds are now black. Few others have been entirely successful in depicting crimson clouds at sunset. No pigment is sufficiently brilliant and transparent to reproduce the tremendously high light that the sun throws upon these clouds. Vermilion is the nearest red, but it is an opaque heavy colour. By reducing the tones of all surrounding things, – that is, by painting them darker than they really are, an approximation of truth may be realized.

Here at the Lake of the Woods majestic cumulus clouds often rise in the eastern skies in the evening. Tinted by the sun, they reflect its last rays – gold, orange, red, and at the last a ghostly grey in the night. The limpid shadows that reveal its contours – the clean edges of its upper parts – the mystery of its vanishment at the horizon – the thought that its magnificence inspires – why, with this object of splendour in the heavens, who would look at a sunset? (8)

Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
Norman Bay, Lake of the Woods, 1920
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 50)
29.2 x 21.3 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
Evening Cloud, 1922
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 2)
31 x 47.2 cm

The Pendulous Branch

One characteristic device to be found in a number of  Phillips’ work is that of the pendulous branch. He himself noted:

Many people have remarked that my paintings display a fondness for the tangled foregrounds, seasons of foliage, and particularly for pendulous branches. They say, it looks Japanese. Experience at the lake, however, might teach them that such are typical of the wild Canadian woods; that vegetation obscures the view nearly everywhere, and that the tangle of growth is so thick that often an exe is needed to cut a way through. If they have kept to the beaten path, then they probably respect convention in art as well as in life.

Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
Morning, 1924
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 150)
18 x 19.3 cm

It does not follow, of course, that because this interwoven growth is there it must be painted, but it is often of great beauty in pattern. Who has seen and has not admired Tom Thomson’s Northern River? There are occasional open views, but more often than not the beholder sits under an umbrageous tree to see and digest them. From that position the same thing occurs all over again – a branch cutting obtrusively across the field of vision.

It is justly stated that God abhorred exact reproductions in his scheme of creation. It is true that no two leaves are alike. The element of deviation from absolute perfection endows every object and every living thing with an individuality that claims attention. If the deviation is slight, we have beauty, if considerable, deformity. “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion” said Bacon.

Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
Evening, 1921
colour woodcut on paper (edition: 50)
19.6 x 18.4 cm

Notes:

5 W. J. Phillips, “Wet Paint”, unpublished manuscript, c. 1930, p. 86.
6 W.J. Phillips, “The Canadian Scene” (Toronto: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.) 1928, p. 17.
7 W. J. Phillips, “Wet Paint”, unpublished manuscript, c. 1930, p. 49.
8 W. J. Phillips, “Wet Paint”, unpublished manuscript, c. 1930, p. 86-92.


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Walter J. Phillips and Lake of the Woods – Part I

07 Saturday Dec 2019

Posted by Roger H. Boulet in Canadian art, visual art

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Walter J Phillips

Introduction

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Walter J. Phillips Lake of the Woods, 1926 watercolour on paper 38.1 x 41.9 cm Nicki and Bryce Douglas Collection, Douglas Family Art Centre, Kenora, Ontario.

In March of 1990, at the invitation of Lakehead University, I gave an illustrated talk on the subject of Walter J. Phillips and the Lake of the Woods. When I was contacted by Sophie Lavoie, Curator of the Muse: Douglas Family Art Centre, informing me of the exhibition W.J. Phillips: At the Lake at the McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, from 15 February to 10 May 2020. I recalled the lecture from three decades ago, and thought I could recast my old notes into a new blog entry.

The Nicki and Bryce Douglas Gift to the city of Kelowna consists of about 65 works by Walter J. Phillips, centred on the Lake of the Woods area. It celebrates the idea of ‘summers at the lake,’ something dear to the Douglas family, as it had been to the Phillips family several decades previously. Phillips found much inspiration at ‘the lake’ with his own family, and fortunately, he recorded his thoughts in miscellaneous texts, both published and unpublished.

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Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) Rest, 1923 colour woodcut on paper (edition: 100) 19.8 x 29.5 cm

This essay is about Walter J. Phillips and the Northern landscape, more specifically that of the Lake of the Woods. The lake straddles the Ontario-Manitoba border, at their southern-most borders, the southwest in Ontario and the southeast in Manitoba. If you drive through northern Ontario going west, you come to the Lake of the Woods after days of lakes, rocks and pines. The Lake of the Woods marks the border between the Canadian Shield country and the great plains to the West. Coming from the west, you come to the lake after countless miles of flat open prairie. The transition is rather abrupt. All of a sudden, the landscape is dotted with coniferous trees, rocks and lakes of varying sizes. Lake of the Woods is one of the larger lakes, and extends southwards into Minnesota. Most of the ‘cottage country’ seems to be centred around Kenora, on the northern edge of the lake. In fact, the name Kenora is an amalgamation of Keewatin, Norman and Rat Portage, the latter being the original name of the place, something to remember as we look at the titles of some of Phillips’ works, especially Keewatin and Norman.

Early years; Immigration to Canada

Great Britain was the birthplace of some of the greatest Canadian artists, including Fred Varley, Arthur Lismer, and J.E.H. MacDonald, to name a few of Phillips’ contemporaries, who would become members of the Group of Seven. Many came to Canada and were to produce a very different kind of art than that of the Group of Seven. One of these was Walter Joseph Phillips.

He was born at Barton-on-Humber on October 25, 1884. As his father was an itinerant Wesleyan Methodist minister, the family moved about a great deal. He did take some evening art classes relatively early on, and eventually attended more professional art classes at the Municipal College of Art in Birmingham, while going to a Boarding school near Birmingham for his regular education. Needless to say, his father was opposed to a career as an artist which, for a Wesleyan Methodist, meant certain damnation. It is perhaps to get away from such an oppressive atmosphere that, in about 1902, Walter J. Phillips went to South Africa at the age of 18. There he worked at various odd jobs, hoping to raise enough money to study art in Paris.

He returned to England five years later in 1907, not having made much money, and so he set out to work as a commercial artist, first in Manchester, and then moving on to London. It was in London that he met another artist (Ernest S. Carlos) with whom he was to go on a number of sketching trips in the south of England. Perhaps with Carlos’ assistance, he obtained the position of Art Master at Bishop’s School in Salisbury in 1908. Two years later he married one of his students, Gladys Pitcher. In 1911, he held his first one man exhibition at the school where he worked. His artistic progress seems to have been constant and his sales were relatively good. In 1912, one of his watercolours, The Pier, Newlyn, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.

Winnipeg: 1913-1924

By 1913, he had decided to emigrate to Canada. He had not been able to convince Gladys to go back to South Africa. He had apparently told her too many stories about life with snakes. They decided on Winnipeg for “no particular reason”, although they had relatives in Toronto and in Vancouver, and thought that Winnipeg would be far enough away from both.

They sailed from Liverpool with their infant son John on the SS Franconia, arriving in Portland, Maine, then taking the train to Montreal, and another train to Winnipeg, where they arrived on June 8, 1913. Gladys was four months pregnant with their next child Margaret. After various rooms and apartments during their first year in Winnipeg, Phillips purchased a home at # 32 Bannerman Avenue in north Winnipeg. From that time, Phillips taught various subjects at St. John’s Technical School, a position he kept until 1924.

Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) Evening on the Red River, 1916 watercolour on paper 16.5 x 29.2 cm

In 1914, the Phillips family spent their first summer holiday at Lake of the Woods, renting a room at Norman. He would return to the Lake of the Woods to sketch at different times of the year, such as at Easter break. But the family did not really begin to vacation there regularly until 1920, after the First World War.

In Winnipeg, one of the first artists Walter met was Cyril Barraud, an English-born etcher and watercolour painter who lived on the second floor of a house in Norwood across the Red River from Winnipeg. Barraud had also arrived in Canada in 1913.  The two artists held a joint exhibition of their work at the Richardson Brothers Gallery on Donald Street in October of 1914. Phillips exhibited many of his new Lake of the Woods subjects along with earlier work he had brought with him from England.

First Etchings in 1915

The friendship with Barraud resulted in Phillips’ first attempts at etching. Barraud was an example to Phillips since he managed to earn a living from the sales of his work, as well as from a teaching position at the newly established Winnipeg School of Art. Phillips learned the technique from Barraud in the fall and winter of 1914, and produced his first nine etchings in 1915. This was the year Barraud left Winnipeg to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and Phillips bought Barraud’s etching press, tools and papers.  The first nine etchings were followed by seven in 1916 and twelve in 1917. Of course, he continued to work in watercolour as well.

Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) Whitefish Bay, Lake of the Woods, 1915 etching on paper (edition: unknown) 13.2 x 21.2 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) Wooded Shoreline, Winnipeg River, 1915 etching on paper (edition: unknown) 17.5 x 27.5 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) The Rapids, 1916 etching on paper (edition: unknown) 17 x 26.8 cm

Many of Phillips’ etchings were of Lake of the Woods subjects, sketched during various excursions to the Kenora region. 

Phillips sold his first etchings “literally through the Richardson’s”, as he said, and this is how he told the story:

They framed a few of my etchings and put them in the window for the populace to see. The people did not react, at least in the way we hoped. However, one day a lady was having some difficulty with her new car and finally backed right into the Richardson’s window in which my prints were displayed. These became a sorry mess once the plate glass crashed and shattered. The lady’s husband made no bones about it, and paid for all the damage. Thus, fortuitously, I acquired my first patron. (1)

A more bona fide patron was the National Gallery of Canada whose trustees purchased two etchings in 1916.

Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) The Lake, 1916 etching on paper (edition: unknown) 21.3 x 34.3 cm. One of the etchings purchased by the National Gallery of Canada in 1916.
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) Kenora, 1917 etching on paper (edition: unknown) 16 x 22.5 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) The Backwater, 1917 etching on paper (edition: unknown) 13.1 x 15.5 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) Wooded Shore near Keewatin, 1917 etching on paper (edition: unknown) 15 x 23.6 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) The Lily, 1918 etching on paper (edition: 50) 27.4 x 17.9 cm Probably Phillips’ last etching. It is dated ‘1918’ in the plate.

Colour Woodcuts

But Walter’s etchings did not satisfy him for long:

My thoughts were in colour; consequently, I had little sympathy with the convention of line as a means of expression: I came to abominate the cold unresponsive nature of metal, the smell of acid and oil, and the dirtiness of printing inks. (2)

I made a score of etchings before I discovered my comparative antipathy to metal and my atavistic zeal for wood-working, and I tried my hand at aquatint and lithography. (3)

Phillips made about thirty etchings in all before turning his attention to the colour woodcut. He was probably experimenting with colour woodcuts late in 1916 or early in 1917. As he related:


I had no guide whatever (remember–Winnipeg was hardly an art centre) excepting a very brief article in The Studio written by Allen Seaby which I read after struggling for months. I have a stubborn streak, however, and I determined to find out all about it, with or without help. I was beset by difficulties from the start, chiefly with regard to paper. I did not know there is no good substitutes for Japanese papers. Cutting the blocks was simple enough, but registering the blocks puzzled me for awhile. (4)

Apart from difficulties in registration, the proper method of sizing paper eluded him completely. Nevertheless, after one aborted attempt, and some prints of experimentation, Phillips produced his first original woodcut in 1917, entitled Winter, printed in an edition of 50.

Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) Winter, 1917 colour woodcut on paper (edition: 50) 14.3 x 24.1 cm. This was Phillips’ first colour woodcut.
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) Dying Pines, 1917 colour woodcut on paper (edition: 50) 24.2 x 11.8 cm

From this time on, Phillips worked principally in the medium of the colour woodcut, besides that of watercolour. His first attempts at the woodcut could be described as being a little crude, but he quickly improved. He soon learned to dispose of the heavy outline of the key block, in favour of overlapped and gradated tones, which were very much like watercolour. Small wonder that Phillips found the medium so sympathetic. The inks were water-based and didn’t smell.

But he did not abandon the etching medium until about 1919, and we find some subjects appearing in both media, based on subjects first sketched in the area of Lake of the Woods.

Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) Winnipeg River at Minaki, 1917 etching on paper (edition: unknown) 17.6 x 19 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) Winnipeg River at Minaki, 1919 colour woodcut on paper (edition: 50) 17.6 x 18.9 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) The Waterfall, 1916 etching on paper (edition: unknown) 27.6 x 14.7 cm
Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) The Waterfall, 1919 colour woodcut on paper (edition: 50) 112.8 x 15.5 cm

Notes:

  1. W.J. Phillips, “Pictures on the Wall”, undated and unpublished manuscript, p. 7.
  2. W. J. Phillips, “The Technique of the Color Wood-Cut”, (New York: Brown-Robertson Co. Inc.) 1926, p. 13.
  3. W.J. Phillips, “Pictures on the Wall”, p. 5.
  4. W.J. Phillips, “Pictures on the Wall”, p. 8-9.

On to Walter J. Phillips and Lake of the Woods – Part II


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