Sunset (Lake of the Woods)

 

Walter Joseph Phillips

  1884 - 1963 (biography)

1919  

color woodcut 

8 3/8 x 11 5/16" image 

pencil, lower right 

37 of 50  

 

MBL30 

thin, antique white laid Japanese 

published 

artist 

18797 

SOLD

An early color woodcut by Phillips, who made his first color woodcut in 1917 after being an etcher. The impressions of these early woodcuts vary from print to print, there were no good instruction manuals and he learned by experimentation. In 1924 he made a trip to England where he met Seaby and Giles and, most importantly, Yoshijiro Urushibara who had been brought from Japan to England to teach the British color woodcut artists how to size and use the Japanese papers. After this his color became sharper and more consistant. The earlier works are more like printed watercolors.