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Campbell Tinning fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1937-1989.

Reference:

R3646-0-1-E, MG30-D385

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

106673

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Campbell Tinning fonds
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Fonds includes:

13 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1937-1989.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

15 cm of textual records.
958 photographs b&w, negatives.
182 drawings.
31 prints.
67 watercolours.
25 sketchbooks.
2 scrapbooks.
3 sheets from scapbook.
1 oil painting.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of personal papers of Campbell Tinning in the following series: Correspondence; Military Service Records; Printed material; Exhibitions.

Fonds also contains photographs including: depiction of George Campbell Tinning; Chateau de Ramezay, Montreal, Quebec; Canadian Paratroop Battallion and Canadian Officers Training School in Europe. Some photographs are by George Campbell Tinning.

Fonds consists of watercolours, drawings, prints, and sketchbooks by George Campbell Tinning and others including documentation of WWII in Canada and abroad; harvesting scenes around Lorie, Saskatchewan; interior designs from Montreal's Ritz Carleton Hotel, 1964, the Stikeman Elliot law firm offices, and room designs for the Montreal Museum Ball, 1958.

Fonds also contains two scrapbooks consisting of newspaper clippings, original sketches, Christmas cards, exhibition catalogues, photographic prints and negatives, postcards and original correspondence.

Fonds consists of one oil painting of George Campbell Tinning.

Provenance:

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Tinning, George Campbell, 1910-1996

Additional name(s):

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Tinning, George Campbell, 1910-1996

Biography/Administrative history:

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Tinning, George Campbell, 1910-1996 : George Campbell Tinning, artist, was born in Saskatoon. He studied art at Eliot O'Hara's Watercolour School in Maine and at the Art Student's League in New York. He first exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 1938 and, after moving to Montréal in 1939, exhibited with Sidney Carter's Gallery there. He joined the Canadian Society of Graphic Art and the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, and won the Art Association of Montreal's Jessie Dow Award in 1942.

Tinning enlisted with the Canadian Army in 1942, joining the Black Watch Royal Highlanders of Canada. He was appointed an official Canadian war artist in 1943 and was posted to Halifax, before being sent overseas. After training at the Canadian Army Officers training school near Worthing, Sussex, Tinning was sent to Italy, to replace the war artists Charles Comfort and Lawren P. Harris. He stayed in Italy, producing documentary war art, until February 1945, when he went with the rest of the Canadian units to Belgium and Holland.

After the war, Tinning returned to Montréal, where he was active in commercial art, doing, among other projects, window designs for Simpson's. He became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1953.

Finding aid:

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Textual records: (Paper) Finding aid 1927 is a file list. MSS1927

Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS1927
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000487.pdf

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General note:

Transferred in 1992 and 1993 from the Documentary Art and Photography Division which had received the material from Campbell Tinning of Montréal, Québec.
Subject heading:

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War artists Canada

Artistes de guerre Canada

World War, 1939-1945

Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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118-080007-9
118-080091-5
120-080100-8
120-080120-2
121-080153-1
121-080266-X
1979-057 NPC
1985-182 NPC
1990-143 DAP
1990-285 DAP
1992-636 DAP
1992-661 DAP
1993-306 DAP
1993-460 DAP
1993/0226
90-072
92-283
92-420
93-140
93-235

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-D385
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 D 385] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1927] 142

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

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1 photograph, 1939 (accession 1993-460 DAP) : No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright expired. Credit: Sidney Carter / National Archives of Canada.
1 print, 1950 (accession 1993-306 DAP): No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright belongs to Canadian Bank of Commerce. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
957 photographs, 40 watercolours, 23 drawings, 18 reproductions, 12 prints, 8 sketchbooks, 3 sheets from scrapbook, 1939-1968 (accession 1992-661 DAP): No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright belongs to George Campbell Tinning and others. See individual items. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
23 watercolours, 1 drawing, 1942-1945, predominant 1944-1945 (accession 1992-636 DAP); 1 watercolour, 1989 (accession 1990-285 DAP); 148 drawings, 17 sketchbooks, 10 designs, 3 watercolours, 2 scrapbooks, 1 painting, 1941-1964, predominant 1943-1945 (accession 1990-143 DAP): No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright belongs to George Campbell Tinning. Credit: National Archives of Canada.

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