drawing, MY FIRST COMMAND
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19920157-012
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Law , D.S.C., C.D.*, Commander Charles Anthony Francis
- Date Made 1941/08/01
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Art
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1941/08/01
- Latest 1941/08/01
- Medium ink
- Support paper
- Materials Not applicable
- Service Component Royal Canadian Navy
- Unit MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT 48
- Measurements Height 17.8 cm, Width 22.8 cm
- Caption C. Anthony Law (1916 - 1996)
- Additional Information Commander Anthony Law, DSC, RCN was one of Canada's most notable naval official war artists of the Second World War. He was unique in that he served as a naval officer throughout the conflict and in the period after the war. He retired in 1966. During his long and distinguished career as a naval officer he also worked as a professional artist. As a young man in the early war years, he served on a number of motor torpedo boats in the English Channel, and was involved in the action against the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in 1942. In this period he still found time to paint, usually when ashore during refits. In 1943, for example, he received a temporary assignment that enabled him to record some of Canada's more notable vessels, including HMCS Haida, Chaudière, Huron, and Restigouche. The Canadian War Museum collection includes some exuberant sketches of Law's shipmates, the vessels on which he served, and the ports he visited during this period.