Lot 118
WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS, R.C.A.
Provenance:
Private Collection, Calgary
Literature:
Roger Boulet, The Tranquility and the Turbulence, Markham, 1981, pages 201-203.
Note:
Boulet, in the chapter entitled Waterfalls, quotes from Phillip’s unpublished and undated manuscript: “On a sunny day I enjoy nothing better than to walk beside a mountain creek... Johnson Creek, fifteen miles from Banff, along the West Road, provides a very proper setting. It is a stream to my mind - of perfect dimensions, of varying width, average three or four yards. Here and there the trail clings to the walls of the gorge...”