drawing, Parachutes

Tinning, Captain George Campbell

Circa 1944

charcoal; not applicable

Canadian War Museum

A charcoal sketch depicts several parachutes descending from the sky over a scene with military vehicles and figures. The drawing captures a moment of airborne activity with ground support. 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,…