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Catch a Surprising Glimpse at WWII Leader Winston Churchill’s Pastime—Painting—at the First Major British Retrospective Since His Death
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- Christian Thorsberg | Daily Correspondent
- The Wallace Collection, an art gallery in London’s Manchester Square, invites visitors to consider Churchill’s paintings.
- “This show is about assessing him as a painter, which has not really been done before,” Xavier Bray, the Wallace Collection’s director, tells the New York Times’ Leo Sands.
Christian Thorsberg | Daily Correspondent
Add as preferred source Winston Churchill painting in Belgium, September 1946 © Churchill Archives Centre, CSCT 5-6-160 (colorized) As history museums across the United Kingdom remember Winston Churchill as the country’s wartime prime minister, famous for his politics and the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany, one institution is framing the man—and his frames—in another light completely.
The Wallace Collection, an art gallery in London’s Manchester Square, invites visitors to consider Churchill’s paintings. The exhibition, which features more than 50 of his artworks, is the statesman’s first major British retrospective since his death in 1965.
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