Individuals >> Law, Jack

Artist.

There is scant information available about Jack Law. He is described as a landscape painter and Chelsea tile-maker who was acquainted with Walt Whitman, although he reportedly told a Boston friend that Whitman would not remember him by name (Traubel 45).

References & Biographical Resources

Traubel, Horace. Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman's Conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888-1892. Ed. Schmidgall, Gary. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001. [more about this work]

A Chelsea tile-maker who remembered Whitman from Pfaff's days when Law was a landscape painter. Claimed that Whitman would most likely not recognize him by name. [pages: 45]