Winston Churchill is known today—five decades after his death—as the resolute statesman who led the British during World War II and inspired a nation during its “finest hour.”
He was an ambitious, confident, bold, and highly creative man.
He was also a passionate writer and orator. He wrote over five thousand speeches and published more than forty books and countless articles ranging from African travel journals to essays about oil painting. In 1953 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for “his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.”
There is, however, another picture to be painted of Winston Churchill: the portrait of him as an artist. A Passion for Painting explores Churchill’s most beloved pastime.
By Edwina Sandys with Forward by Boris Johnson
For more information, visit the website www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org
Winston Churchill: A Passion For Painting
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