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Churchill and Art
Churchill by Poy: Cartoonist of a Vanished Age
17
Mar
2022
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By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
"Poy was not unlike a modern Aesop, who drew the simple truth with devastating clearness. Looking at any of his pictures you laugh because of their very rightness. It is only afterwards that you realise the brilliance of the drawing, and are staggered by the genius that created it.”
Churchill in “Punch”: His Fanciful Hats Helped Fashion His Image
24
Feb
2022
In Defense of Graham Sutherland and his “Infamous” Churchill Portrait
03
Sep
2020
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By DAVE TURRELL
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.
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Aneurin Bevan,
Anthony Montague Browne,
Charles Moran,
Churchill College,
Clementine Churchill,
Dave Turrell,
David McFall,
Dwight Eisenhower,
Georgy Malenkov,
Grace Hamblin,
Graham Sutherland,
Herbert Gunn,
Jennie Lee,
John Charmley,
King George VI,
Mary SOames,
Max Beaverbrook,
Omdurman,
Shane Leslie,
Somerset Maugham,
Winston S. Churchill,
Painting à deux: Churchill’s and Alexander’s Portraits of Lake Como, 1945
25
Jun
2020
1
By PAUL RAFFERTY
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
29
May
2020
By FRANK WILLIAMS and MEG PARKES
A chapel in Java built by Allied POWs included national symbols, in which Winston Churchill was surreptitiously added under the noses of Japanese guards.
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All Saints Church Jakarta,
Andrew Atholl Duncan,
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
Batavia,
Battle of Java,
Battle of Singapore,
David Hillhouse,
FEPOW,
Frank Williams,
Jakarta,
Java,
John Baxter,
Meg Parkes,
National Memorial Arboretum,
Ronald Williams,
Royal Artillery,
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers,
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve,
Tandjong Priok,
Toc H,
Winston S. Churchill,
Zentsuji,