Painting As A Pastime.
"There is no better exercise for the would-be artist than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it": First Edition of Winston S. Churchill's Painting As A Pastime; inscribed by Churchill's granddaughter Edwina Sandys
Painting As A Pastime.
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Item Number: 115398
London: Oldham Press Limited/Ernest Benn Limited, 1948.
First edition of this collection of Churchill’s brilliant essays on hobbies and painting. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with eighteen reproductions of Churchill’s paintings in full color. Association copy, inscribed by Churchill’s granddaughter Edwin Sandys, “This is my favorite book by my grandfather and it inspires me in my own art Edwina Sandys June 12, 2020.” Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Ownership signature.
Churchill was a prolific and skilled painter, finding solace in the hobby that he described as "...a friend who makes no undue demands, excites to no exhausting pursuits, keeps faithful pace even with feeble steps, and holds her canvas as a screen between us and the envious eyes of Time or the surly advance of Decrepitude." This volume contains eighteen reproductions in full color of many of his most moving landscapes painted on Lake Como, near the Mediterranean sea, and outside of Monte Carlo.
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