Anthony Law Oct. 15, 1916 - Oct. 15, 1996

Artist, naval officer, wartime hero. Born Oct 15, 1916, in London England; died of cancer at his home at Williams Lake, Halifax, on Oct 15, 1996, his 80th birthday.

In May of 1996, St Mary's University in Halifax mounted a retrospective exhibition of the works of Anthony Law and his wife, Jane Shaw, to celebrate "Sixty Years of Painting in Nature".

When Tony was a teen-ager in Ottawa, Marius Barbeau, the forlklorist and family friend ,took him to a Group of Seven exhibition. Inspired, he went on to study with Fred Varley, P.F. Brownell, Frank Hennessy and Henry Tudor-Hart. His first art show, in 1937, when he was 21 was a major success.

In 1944 he took command of the 29th Canadian MTB flotilla of eight boats, formed in England for D-Day. His heroic command is well documented in his book "White Plumes Astern" published in 1989