Gentile Tondino

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| name = Gentile (Gerry) Tondino

| image = Gentile Tondino photo circa 1955.jpg

| caption = Gentile Tondino photo circa 1955

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| birth_date = September 3, 1923

| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada

| death_date = {{death date and age|2001|8|29|1923|9|3}}

| death_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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| field = educator, artist

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Gentile (Gerry) Tondino {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (September 3, 1923 – August 29, 2001) was a Canadian educator and artist,{{cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/artist/424302227/gentile-tondino.html |title=Past Auction Results for Gentile Tondino Art – Gentile Tondino on artnet |publisher=Artnet.com |accessdate=October 3, 2013}} who lived in Montreal, Quebec.{{cite web|url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/index.asp |title=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts – Académie royale des arts du Canada |publisher=Rca-arc.ca |accessdate=October 3, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013195139/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/index.asp |archivedate=October 13, 2013 }} He painted in oil figures, semi-abstracts and still-life.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

Life and work

Tondino apprenticed with the Canadian painter Adam Sherriff Scott between 1943 and 1947, and studied for three years at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design with Arthur Lismer.

His 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 the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Canada,{{cite web|title=Gentile Tondino|url=https://www.gallery.ca/search/node/TONDINO |date=July 6, 2011 }} corporations like Shell Canada, C.I.L., Reader's Digest, the Art Gallery of Ottawa,[http://www.ottawaartgallery.ca/collections/collections-details-en.php?assc=FAC%201184 ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706200345/http://www.ottawaartgallery.ca/collections/collections-details-en.php?assc=FAC%201184 |date=July 6, 2011 }} the Ontario Heritage Foundation, and McGill University, which has nine commissioned portraits. In 1955, he was elected to the Canadian Group of Painters; in 1962, he was elected an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and in 1968, he was named a full Academician of that society.{{cite web |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/architecture/memoriam/tondino/ |title=Gerry Tondino | School of Architecture – McGill University |publisher=Mcgill.ca |accessdate=October 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004225056/http://www.mcgill.ca/architecture/memoriam/tondino/ |archive-date=October 4, 2013 |url-status=live }}