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Churchill and Art
In Defense of Graham Sutherland and his “Infamous” Churchill Portrait
Today, we need not flinch from the image. Sutherland saw a man behind the legend, reached deep, and gave us the man. The legend needed no portrait.
Painting à deux: Churchill’s and Alexander’s Portraits of Lake Como, 1945
Churchill rarely painted scene with someone else, and only once with a field marshal. Their Lake Como oils offer a glimpse of friendship and technique.
“In Defeat—Defiance.” The Java POWs and a Work of Art and Resistance
A chapel in Java built by Allied POWs included national symbols, in which Winston Churchill was surreptitiously added under the noses of Japanese guards.