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- Artist
- Title
- Date
- Medium
- Technique
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- Description
- Provenance
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SC0263-PWJ-PR-1
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Newnham - Building A - Level 3 - Hallway towards Student Commons West
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Totem, B.C.
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c. 1939
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Print
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Woodcut
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23.5 x 29.8 cm
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16/50
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"Angus MacDonald was a noted stained-glass artist. Among his commissions were several Toronto churches, the C.N.E. and the King Edward Hotel. We knew him as a colleague who taught ceramics. Angus owned an art gallery on Yonge St. in the 1930s. One of the artists he represented was W. J. Phillips. When Phillips received a commission from Canadian Pacific Railway to fill their hotels with his work, he wrote Angus asking that he send him everything he had on hand. Several years later, MacDonald received two packages in the mail containing dozens of Phillips’s prints, a gift from the artist in thanks for any inconvenience he had caused Angus. Some thirty years later Angus was encouraged to open the dusty parcels that had not seen the light of day in all that time. From the large volume of pristine woodcuts, the Seneca Gallery mounted a small print retrospective. From that exhibition the college purchased Totem." (David Phillips, Seneca Polytechnic)
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Purchased from Angus MacDonald.
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Signed bottom right corner, WJ Phillips
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