June 1, 2015

Finest Hour 107, Summer 2000

Page 47

London, 23 May – 2 June


This spring our good friends at the London art gallery Ackermann & Johnson produced a stunning exhibit of portraiture, “Images of Sir Winston Churchill.” With paintings, drawings, bronzes and ephemera, the gallery showed the work of “many distinguished artists who have captured Churchill’s personality and colourful character over the years. In these works, Churchill appears not only as a great statesman, but also as a person of warmth and vitality.” A selection of Churchill’s own paintings complemented the exhibit, revealing his love of art and an element of his private persona.

Ackermann & Johnson’s association with the Churchills goes back a long way. Generations of the family have crossed the gallery’s threshold, viewing, buying, seeking adviceโ€”and some of the younger generation have even worked there. The gallery has taken a generous interest in the work of the Churchill Center and Societies, having allowed Finest Hour to reproduce the 1942 portrait by Adrian Hill (one of the works on display, central on the catalogue cover above), on the cover of our Autumn 1997 number 96. Mr. Peter Johnson has since loaned us another fine portrait for a future cover, and has promised to pursue the possibility of our reproducing two portraits from the House of Commons collection: a 1946 oil by Oswald Birley, and a 1965 oil by Alfred Egerton Cooper, portraying the Lying-in-State at Westminster Hall.

A superb catalogue of the exhibit is available, as are many of the portraits shown. Readers would be well advised to order a copy of the catalogue, which is beautifully produced in colour with a foreword by Lady Soames and itself a collectors item. Please contact:

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