George Campbell (Cam) Tinning, RCA Ink and watercolour WW2 war image 1945 Italy

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George Campbell (Cam) Tinning, RCA Ink and watercolour WW2 war image 1945 Italy:
$1000.00

George Campbell (Cam) Tinning, RCAInk and watercolour titled and dated on back \"Last leave to Florence February 1945\"
signed on front Campbell tinning 45 , sight 9 x 8.5 inches framed 13 x 12 inchescondition: image very good, back sealing paper with some tears George Campbell (Cam) Tinning, RCA (February 25, 1910 – February 28, 1996) was a
Canadian painter, graphic designer, muralist and illustrator.
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.