drawing, Ducal Palace Urbino

Tinning, Captain George Campbell

October 1944

graphite, pastel; not applicable

Canadian War Museum

A sketch depicts the interior of a room with arched openings and columns, rendered in graphite and pastel on a gray background. A small framed picture hangs on the wall. 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,…