painting, ARROW ROUTE DOWN
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19710261-5395
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Event
1939-1945 Second World War
1943-1945 Italian Campaign - Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Tinning, Captain George Campbell
- Date Made 1945/01/03
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Art
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1945/01/03
- Latest 1945/01/03
- Medium mixed media
- Support papermatframe
- Materials Not applicable
- Service Component Canadian Army
- Measurements Height 56.0 cm, Width 75.9 cm
- Caption George Tinning (1910 - 1996)
- Additional Information George Campbell Tinning was born in Saskatoon and trained at the Eliot O'Hara Watercolour School, Goose Rocks, Maine and the Art Students' League in New York. In 1939 he moved to Montreal, where he established himself as an artist and worked as an illustrator. He never stopped painting and exhibiting, and at the end of his life was creating large abstract compositions in brilliant colours, pictures that were far removed in style and feel from his wartime and immediate postwar subjects. Tinning began his military career in the 2nd Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) in June 1942. He was appointed an official war artist in April 1943 and spent the balance of the year in Ottawa. From December 1943 to July 1944 he was posted to London, attached to the Historical Section at Canadian Military Headquarters, before being transferred to the 1st Canadian Division's Historical Section in August 1944, serving in Italy and northwest Europe. He completed his service in Ottawa in 1946 and was released in October of that year with the rank of captain.