Painting as a Pastime

Author(s): Churchill, Winston S

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	No Jacket
Edition:	1st Edition
Impression:	1st Impression
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Odhams Press and Ernest Benn
Publication Year:	1948
Publication Place:	London
Book ID:	002830
Catalogue(s):	Art ◇ Hobbies, Activities and Pastimes

32pp plus 18 full colour plate illustrations of Churchill's paintings. Pale olive cloth boards (worn and faded at edges, slightly rounded at corners, a few marks). Internally, possibly a hint of old water exposure on endpapers, else neat, clean, bright and tight. Churchill's three pictures on the line at the Royal Academy and his election as an Honorary Academician Extraordinary aroused great interest in this accomplishments as a painter, prompting the publication of this book. This volume contains reproductions in full colour of 18 of Churchill's paintings and is introduced by a reprint of his two brilliant essays on hobbies and painting.

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