Lot 227
GEORGE CAMPBELL TINNING, R.C.A.
Additional Images
Literature:
Dean F. Oliver/Laura Brandon, Canvas of War; Painting the Canadian Experience, 1914-1945, Ottawa, 2001, page 132, illustrated for a similar subject entitled Drifting Down, 1944.
Note:
Tinning was appointed an official War Artist in April, 1943. According to an inscription on the frame backing, these works are “Original Field sketches done approximately 2 months prior to D-Day at Bulford Camp, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England.”