14

Newfoundland joined Confederation on March 31, 1949. News and information about this new province was of intense interest to the rest of Canada. Tinning spent two months, from early July to early September of 1949, painting primarily in locations on the east coast of Newfoundland.

15

St. Luke's Churchyard, Port de Grave, NL
1949
Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, Saskatchwan, Canada
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
Collection of the MJM&AG, 20.07.18.4

16

untitled image on reverse of "Hibbs Cove"
1949
Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, Saskatchwan, Canada
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
private collection

17

By mid-September, he headed back to Montreal and, within six months, he showed the Newfoundland work at the Museum of Art. An article in the local newspaper included a photograph of Tinning beside a number of the watercolours (some included in this exhibition).

18

Heather Smith and Kim Houghtaling conversing about the art of George Campbell Tinning
20 February 2010
Swift Current, SK
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
archives of the MJM&AG

19

Cover of the February 1950 edition of the Atlantic Guardian
February, 1950
Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, Saskatchwan, Canada
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
archives of the MJM&AG

20

Tinning published images of Newfoundland work in two magazine articles and, for one of them, he also contributed text.

21

page 46 of George Campbell Tinning's article in the February 1949 issue of The Atlantic Guardian
February, 1950
Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, Saskatchwan, Canada
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
collection of the MJM&AG

22

Pages 44 and 45 of George Campbell Tinning's article in the Atlantic Guardian's February 1950 issue
February, 1950
Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, Saskatchwan, Canada
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
archives of the MJM&AG

23

For the rest of his life, Tinning made a modest living by a combination of graphic design commissions and sales of his own work through the commercial art dealers in Montreal. Some summers he travelled to other locations; paintings from Maine, the Rockies, and the Prairies. These images are included in this virtual exhibition.

24

Crowsnest Pass, AB
1953
Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, Saskatchwan, Canada
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
Collection of the MJM&AG

25

Installation view of "The War Art of George Campbelling Tinning" at MJM&AG
10 November 1999
Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, Saskatchwan, Canada

26

In November of 1999, the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery exhibited paintings and diaries of George Campbell Tinning.

27

Installation view of "Campbell Tinning: The Newfoundland Series" at the Art Gallery of Swift Current
20 February 2010
Swift Current, SK
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
archives of the MJM&AG