C. Anthony Law
The Painting Commander
1916 - 1996
Born in London, England in 1916 to Canadian parents, Law was inspired and encouraged to study art by his Grandfather Law, himself an artist, and family friend and noted anthropologist, Dr. Marius Barbeau. He has studied painting and drawing with Franklin Brownell, Fred Varley. Frank Hennessey and Percyval Tudor Hart.
During the Second World War, Law served as an officer in the Canadian Navy. He was mentioned twice in dispatches, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In 1943/44, while his flotilla of Motor Torpedo Boats was being prepared, he was commissioned as an Official War Artist. an assignment which was confirmed by his appointment as an Official Naval War Artist in 1945. Transferring to the permanent forces after the War, he traveled to the Arctic, and to the East and West coasts of Canada. He was known as "the painting Commander".
Upon retirement, he became active in the art community of Nova Scotia, was artist-in-residence for Saint Mary's University between 1967 and 1980, and was the first curator of Saint Mary's University Art Gallery. In 1981 Law was made an honorary Doctor of Letters by Saint Mary's University.
Bernard Riordon, Director of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. and Curator of Law's Retrospective Exhibition in 1989, says of Law's work. "His paintings have provided us with a vision of Nova Scotian and Canadian landscape in vigorous and bold realism. In the tradition of the Group of Seven, his works demonstrate a distinctive Canadian point of view by their fresh and robust approach to landscape and by their honesty of purpose."
The following are examples of his artwork...
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It is with great sadness and deep regret that I must announce that C. Anthony Law passed away on Tuesday, October 15th, 1996 following a long battle with cancer.
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Jane Shaw Law
Jane Shaw is well known in Nova Scotia as an artist and art teacher. Growing up along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, she was encouraged to study art by her mother, who was an artist and painter, and family friend and artist, Mary Davis Greer. After studying at the Portland School of Fine Arts. she came to Canada, to Quebec's Ecole des Beaux Arts. Here she studied under Jean-Paul Lemieux and Omar Peron, earning a diploma in design and art education. Each summer she returned to Maine, first as a student, then as an instructor at Eliot O'Hara's watercolour school at Goose Rocks Beach. At L'Ecole Shaw met Anthony Law and they were married in 1942, while Law was on leave from the Canadian Navy. Law's Naval postings took them from Quebec to Victoria, Ottawa, Halifax, New York and England. Since 1951, they have made their home in Halifax.In 1987 a major retrospective exhibition entitled "Jane Shaw: Watercolours 1937-1987 was mounted at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery. In 1993, in recognition of her outstanding contributions, Saint Mary's University honoured Jane Shaw Law with an Honourary Doctor of Letters.
Jane Shaw's artistic career has spanned many media. but watercolour is her favourite medium. She has painted still lifes, figure studies, street scenes, landscapes and seascapes, but her most noted works are her flowers, which magically come to life under her brush.
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