Sir Winston Churchill: His Life and His Paintings
2004Coombs, David; Minnie S. Churchill
256 pages (color)
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1874 Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England - 1965 Hyde Park, London, England. Known for: Landscape, waterscape, figure, genre and still life painting, political leader.
Churchill as Artist . Half Passion, Half Philosophy. By Ron Cynewulf Robbins. Churchill was forty before he discovered the pleasures of painting. The compositional challenge of depicting a landscape... Read full biography
Churchill as Artist . Half Passion, Half Philosophy. By Ron Cynewulf Robbins. Churchill was forty before he discovered the pleasures of painting. The compositional challenge of depicting a landscape gave the heroic rebel in him temporary repose. He possessed the heightened perception of the genuine... Read full biography
Churchill as Artist . Half Passion, Half Philosophy. By Ron Cynewulf Robbins. Churchill was forty before he discovered the pleasures of painting. The compositional challenge of depicting a landscape gave the heroic rebel in him temporary repose. He possessed the heightened perception of the genuine artist to whom no scene is commonplace. Over a period of forty-eight years his creativity yielded more than 500 pictures. His art quickly became half passion, half philosophy. He enjoyed holding... Read full biography
Churchill as Artist . Half Passion, Half Philosophy. By Ron Cynewulf Robbins. Churchill was forty before he discovered the pleasures of painting. The compositional challenge of depicting a landscape gave the heroic rebel in him temporary repose. He possessed the heightened perception of the genuine artist to whom no scene is commonplace. Over a period of forty-eight years his creativity yielded more than 500 pictures. His art quickly became half passion, half philosophy. He enjoyed holding forth in speech and print on the aesthetic rewards for amateur devotees. To him it was the greatest of hobbies. He had found his other world—a respite from crowding events and pulsating politics. His initiation was simplistic. As he put it: ".... Read full biography
Churchill as Artist . Half Passion, Half Philosophy. By Ron Cynewulf Robbins. Churchill was forty before he discovered the pleasures of painting. The compositional challenge of depicting a landscape gave the heroic rebel in him temporary repose. He possessed the heightened perception of the genuine artist to whom no scene is commonplace. Over a period of forty-eight years his creativity yielded more than 500 pictures. His art quickly became half passion, half philosophy. He enjoyed holding forth in speech and print on the aesthetic rewards for amateur devotees. To him it was the greatest of hobbies. He had found his other world—a respite from crowding events and pulsating politics. His initiation was simplistic. As he put it: ". experiments with a child's paint-box led me the next morning to produce a comp... Read full biography
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Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter
1990Soames, Mary224 pages (color)Painting As a Pastime: The Paintings of Winston S. Churchill
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Sandys, Edwina; Celia Sandys0 pages (color)Clementine
1979Soames, Mary732 pages