This year’s annual holiday cover comes to us courtesy of the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery of the University of Toronto’s Art Museum. Winter Woods by Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963) is a 9.5 by 11 centimetre colour woodcut that is part of the Winter Woodcuts Portfolio. Born in Engand, Phillips was a Canadian painter and printmaker who is credited with bringing the Japanese style of colour woodcut to Canada.

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ABOUT OUR COVER: Arctic amusements (December 2016)

ABOUT OUR COVER: A red house in winter (December 2015)