Tunnel Mountain

 

Walter Joseph Phillips

  1884 - 1963 (biography)

1944  

color woodcut 

7 1/2 x 14 3/4" image 

pencil, lower right margin 

75 of 100  

pencil titled & editioned 

illustrated page 36 in "Walter J. Phillips" by Green, Rutherford & Tomlinson 

fine, ivory laid 

published 

 

CABU103 

$5,250.00 

Tunnel Mountain is located in the Bow River Valley of Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Also known as Buffalo Mountain by the Siksika (Blackfoot) and Nakoda tribes, it resembles a sleeping bison when viewed from the north and east. Here, Phillips' penchant for atmospheric landscapes is on full display. He has captured the low-lying peak draped in the blue shadows of early morning. A blanket of snow covers the midground up to a dark treeline, and the sky is clear and bright. Distant peaks are limned in the rose gold of a dawning sun.