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![]() ![]() Notable are Churchill’s meetings with political, business, newspaper and entertainment figures (President Hoover, Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Bernard Baruch, William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies and Charlie Chaplin) as well as his visits to such landmarks as the Grand Canyon, Lake Louise, Niagara Falls and Yosemite.įor more information on my book describing Churchill’s 1929 visit, click on the book cover above. In the company of his son Randolph, his brother Jack and his nephew Johnny, he toured Canada and the United States. Winston Churchill took a three-month vacation to North America in the summer and fall of 1929, a little known event in his long career. ![]() During her research, Purnell discovered a tape housed in the Churchill Archives in which Grace Hamblin, Clementine’s private secretary, describes burning the portrait to fulfill the wishes of Lady Churchill. In a recent article in the Daily Telegraph the actual fate of the Sutherland portrait is revealed by Sonia Purnell, author of First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill. Sutherland called the destruction “without question an act of vandalism.” It certainly combines force and candor,” but privately remarked that he thought it made him look “half-witted.” The portrait was never seen again after the presentation and in January 1978, after the death of her mother the month before, Churchill’s daughter Lady Soames revealed that Clementine Churchill had destroyed the painting on her own initiative prior to Winston’s death in 1965. Artist: Graham Sutherland (1903-1980), one of the neo-romantic painters who dominated. Graham Sutherlands Winston Churchill (1954) by Jonathan Jones. At the time, Churchill said, “The portrait is a great example of modern art. Portrait of Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, 1954. While praised by some art critics, it was disliked by the public and despised by Churchill and his family. He notably had his portrait painted by the British artist Graham Sutherland in 1954 to commemorate his 80th birthday. (The portrait is unveiled at 2:37 on the above video). ![]() The completed painting was presented to Churchill by Clement Attlee, on behalf of both Houses of Parliament, in a ceremony held on Churchill’s 80 th birthday on Novemat Westminster Hall. Commencing in late August, Churchill sat eight times for Sutherland to paint his portrait. However, when the British artist Graham Sutherland (190380) was commissioned to paint a full-length portrait of Churchill in 1954 for 1,000 guineas (about 27,000 today), paid by the House. In 1954 the members of Parliament commissioned a portrait of Winston Churchill by Graham Sutherland to present to the then prime minister on the occasion of his 80 th birthday which would take place that year. ![]()
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