Gentile Tondino
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Gentile Tondino (born September 3, 1923 - August 29, 2001) was a Canadian
educator, artist
, who lived in Montreal, Quebec
. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy
Tondino's drawings and paintings have been exhibited widely, in galleries and museums across Canada and Australia, as well as in Belgium and Bermuda. His work is also included in numerous private collections, and in the collections of important institutions such as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Canada, corporations like Shell Canada, C.I.L., Readers' Digest' The Art Gallery of Ottawa and the Ontario Heritage Foundation, and McGill University, where nine commissioned portraits grace the walls. In 1955, he was elected to the Canadian Group of Painters
, an outgrowth of the Group of Seven
; in 1962, he was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy, and in 1968, he was named Academician of that society.
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Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
educator, artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, who lived in Montreal, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy
Tondino's drawings and paintings have been exhibited widely, in galleries and museums across Canada and Australia, as well as in Belgium and Bermuda. His work is also included in numerous private collections, and in the collections of important institutions such as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Canada, corporations like Shell Canada, C.I.L., Readers' Digest' The Art Gallery of Ottawa and the Ontario Heritage Foundation, and McGill University, where nine commissioned portraits grace the walls. In 1955, he was elected to the Canadian Group of Painters
Canadian Group of Painters
The Canadian Group of Painters was a collective of 28 painters from across Canada which came together as group in 1933. They succeeded the disbanded Group of Seven, whose paintings of the Canadian wilderness had been a strong influence on Canadian art....
, an outgrowth of the Group of Seven
Group of Seven (artists)
The Group of Seven, sometimes known as the Algonquin school, were a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920-1933, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael , Lawren Harris , A. Y. Jackson , Franz Johnston , Arthur Lismer , J. E. H. MacDonald , and Frederick Varley...
; in 1962, he was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy, and in 1968, he was named Academician of that society.
Teaching
- 1959-1999 – McGill University
- 1952-1967 - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design
Education and Affiliations
He apprenticed with the Canadian painter Adam Sherriff Scott between 1942 and 1947, and studied for three years at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design under renowned artist and art educator Dr. Arthur LismerArthur Lismer
Arthur Lismer, CC was an English-born Canadian painter and member of the Group of Seven.-Early life:At age 13 he apprenticed at a photo-engraving company. He was awarded a scholarship, and used this time to take evening classes at the Sheffield School of Arts from 1898 until 1905...
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