Artist: Illingworth Holey (Buck) Kerr
Title: TURNER VALLEY NOCTURNE
Medium: colour serigraph on paper; ed. #110/150
Dimensions: 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & editioned in pencil
LOT: 56
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Artist: Maxwell Bennett Bates
Title: TWO BOYS
Date: 1956
Medium: lithograph; 1st state; ed. #1/2
Dimensions: 12 x 15.5 in. (30.5 x 39.4 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled, dated & editioned in pencil
LOT: 57
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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton
Title: GAWDUN'S WATERWHEEL, ROSEDALE
Date: 1942 (1982)
Medium: linocut on paper; ed. #11/30
Dimensions: 14 x 19.5 in. (35.6 x 49.5 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled, dated & editioned in pencil
Note: Alternately titled “Waterwheel in Rosebud Valley”. A full page illustration of this print appears on page 22 of “Margaret Shelton Block Prints 1936-1984” (Patricia Ainslie; Glenbow Museum; 1984). Additionally, there is a paragraph about this work on page 21 of the book.
LOT: 58
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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips
Title: THE WATERFRONT, ALERT BAY, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Date: 1928
Medium: colour woodcut on Goyu paper; ed. #225
Dimensions: 6.5 x 9 in. (16.5 x 22.9 cm)
Notes:
signed lower right; editioned lower left (MBL113)
Note: This work was produced from from six cherry-wood blocks, and is the first print in the portfolio “The Canadian Scene” (edition of 300). It is illustrated on page 98 of “The Tranquility and the Turbulence: The Life and Work of Walter J. Philips” (Roger Boulet; M. B. Loates Publishing; 1981).
LOT: 59
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Artist: Marion Florence Nicoll
Title: JANUARY '68
Date: 1969
Medium: colour woodcut on paper; ed. Proof
Dimensions: 14.25 x 11.5 in. (36.2 x 29.2 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled, dated & editioned in pencil; monogrammed & dated in the block
Exhibited: The Continuing Arts Association (Calgary) Annual Art Fair (label on old backing verso)
Note: This work was selected as the front cover of “A History of Art In Alberta: 1905-1970”. There is an additional full-page colour illustration on page 167 of the book.
LOT: 60
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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips
Title: OAK
Date: 1930
Medium: colour woodcut on paper
Dimensions: 3.75 x 2.75 in. (9.5 x 7 cm)
Notes:
signed & titled in pencil; monogrammed in the block
MBL132
Note: This print was re-issued as the Phillips’ Christmas greeting for 1953. It is illustrated on page 115 of “The Tranquility and the Turbulence: The Life and Work of Walter J. Philips” (Roger Boulet; M. B. Loates Publishing; 1981).
LOT: 61
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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips
Title: MOUNTAIN LARCH
Date: 1926
Medium: colour woodcut on paper; ed. #91/150
Dimensions: 7.25 x 9 in. (18.4 x 22.9 cm)
Notes:
signed & editioned; monogrammed & dated in the block
MBL90
LOT: 63
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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips
Title: JOHN
Date: 1928
Medium: colour woodcut on paper; ed. #18
Dimensions: 7 x 8.5 in. (17.8 x 21.6 cm)
Notes:
signed & editioned in pencil; monogrammed in the block (MBL115)
Note: This is the third of seven prints in “The Canadian Scene” portfolio, printed on Goyu paper from six cherry wood blocks, in an edition of 300. The subject is the artist’s son, and the sketch was produced on one of the family’s trips to Muskoka Lake. This work is illustrated on page 84 of “The Tranquility and the Turbulence: The Life and Work of Walter J. Phillips” (Roger Boulet; M. B. Loates Publishing; 1981).
LOT: 64
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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips
Title: SUMMER
Date: 1925
Medium: colour woodcut on paper
Dimensions: 5.5 x 7 in. (14 x 17.8 cm)
Notes:
signed in pencil; monogrammed & dated in the block
(MBL79)
Note: This print was produced for inclusion in “The Original Colour Print Magazine” (London, 1925) and was distributed with the publication, in an edition of 500. It is illustrated on page 75 of “The Tranquility and the Turbulence: The Life and Work of Walter J. Phillips” (Roger Boulet; M. B. Loates Publishing; 1981).
LOT: 65
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Artist: Barbara Harvey Leighton
Title: THE TOWERS, MT. ASSINIBOINE
Medium: colour woodcut on paper; ed. #37/110
Dimensions: 12 x 14.5 in. (30.5 x 36.8 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & editioned in pencil
LOT: 67
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