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PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Ontario

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Roger Boulet, The Tranquility and the Turbulence, 1981, the 1941 colour woodcut entitled Leaf of Gold reproduced page 171

Walter J. Phillips was one of Canada’s finest printmakers and watercolourists. In this sensitive composition Phillips exquisitely positioned a single branch with golden fall leaves against a backdrop of a lake and blue-shadowed mountains. This eye for beauty shows the influence of Japanese art on his work – in 1925 he had studied with the Japanese master Yoshijiro Urushibara in London. This, combined with his training in the British watercolour tradition before he came to Canada, forged an exceptional command of the medium. In 1941 he executed the colour woodcut Leaf of Gold, which is virtually identical in composition to this work – Phillips often derived his woodcuts from drawings and watercolours. The backdrop is the Rocky Mountains. In 1940 Phillips was asked to be an instructor at the Banff Summer School, and he moved to Calgary in the fall of 1941, later building a house in Banff. Responding to the clarity of Canadian light, he worked with washes on dry paper, and consequently captured with technical virtuosity the ephemeral play of light and purity of atmosphere seen in this superb watercolour.

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