painting, Elde Holland
Report a Mistake- Object Number 20130356-004
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Tinning, Captain George Campbell
- Date Made 1945/05/23
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Art
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1945/05/23
- Latest 1945/05/23
- Inscription (recto): Campbell Tinning 23 May 45 Elde Holland Final Scheme 5 Cnd Ard Div Sketch for.
- Medium watercolourgraphite
- Support watercolour paper
- Materials Not applicable
- Service Component Canadian Army
- Measurements Height 35.5 cm, Width 51.0 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.