Gentile Tondino
Gentile (Gerry) 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.
Gentile Tondino
Gentile Tondino
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