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Understanding Churchill Through His Art Autumn 2013 | Volume 4 | Issue 3 The Magazine of the National Churchill Museum Painting & Politics Understanding Churchill Through His Art The DeFer Family Celebrates with a Gift to the Museum Three Lessons in Leadership From the Archives: A Churchillian Trip Board of Governors of the Association of Churchill Fellows MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Jean-Paul Montupet Chairman & Senior Fellow St. Louis, Missouri Warm greetings from the National Churchill A.V.L. Brokaw III Museum here at Westminster College, where we St. Louis, Missouri have had a busy summer — following hard on Robert L. DeFer the heels of a busy spring! Chesterfield, Missouri Earle H. Harbison Jr. St. Louis, Missouri I’m delighted to tell you all that we have secured next year’s Enid and R. Crosby Kemper lecturer William C. Ives Chapel Hill, North Carolina already — an astonishing feat — and that the R. Crosby Kemper III Kemper Lecture will be delivered by Mr. Paul Kansas City, Missouri Reid. To most Churchillians Paul needs no Barbara D. Lewington St. Louis, Missouri introduction. A close friend of the legendary William Manchester, Paul, a journalist by Richard J. Mahoney St. Louis, Missouri profession, was selected by Manchester to finish William R. Piper his series of books on Churchill, The Last Lion. Paul’s book, and the journey he went St. Louis, Missouri through to complete it, will be the subject of his lecture. Given that Manchester’s Suzanne D. Richardson account is, in many ways, the definitive American portrait of WSC, Paul’s continuation St. Louis, Missouri of this series is a fascinating exposition of Churchill and, indeed, of Manchester’s The Honorable Edwina Sandys M.B.E. New York, New York original works as well. More details on dates can be found on page 23. James M. Schmuck Wildwood, Missouri By the time you receive this edition of The Churchillian our documentary film, Winston The Lady Soames L.G., D.B.E. Churchill’s Epic “Iron Curtain Speech”: History Alive Today, will have received two London, U.K. screenings on public television in St. Louis, Missouri, with more plans for such showings Linda Gill Taylor across the country. Stay tuned for more details. Edgerton, Missouri John C. Wade Wildwood, Missouri As always, we seek constantly to improve our physical offerings here at the National Hjalma E. Johnson, Emeritus Churchill Museum and, over the summer, finally completed a long-held ambition Dade City, Florida to improve our HVAC provision throughout the temporary exhibition space. This John R. McFarland, Emeritus now allows us to maintain an ambient temperature far more precisely than previously St. Louis, Missouri and to bring in exhibitions of far greater significance, value and interest. This major Harold L. Ogden, Emeritus Seal Beach, California strategic step forward was made possible by the funds raised during our Churchill medal event in the spring. Thanks once again to all who made that evening a most William H. Tyler, Emeritus Pebble Beach, California wonderful success. Churchill Institute & Memorial With that all said, it is great to present another tremendous edition of The Churchillian, Committee of the Board of Trustees, bursting with insights and scholarship on WSC, his life and times. We welcome, for Westminster College his first contribution, Phil White, author of “Our Supreme Task” who discusses James M. Schmuck, Chair Wildwood, Missouri Churchillian leadership — a most timely topic given the current global situation. Justin Lyons returns with a fascinating discussion that interweaves the personal and Jane Bell, Vice Chair Fulton, Missouri the public sides of Churchill, and Professor James Muller joins us for a review of Bruce Brookby Michael Shelden’s new book, Young Titan. As ever, The Churchillian is full of additional Bartlesville, Oklahoma updates and tidbits about the man himself, the National Churchill Museum and the Ron J. Kostich wider Churchill world. Upland, California Ken Meyer Springfield, Missouri For those of you interested in reading more in the vein of the offerings of The J. Christopher Panettiere Churchillian, we have started a regular blog on our website which will feature pieces Atlanta, Georgia from myself and others. Please join us there and I encourage you all to share the blog William H. Roedy content as widely as you can. London, U.K. Linda Gill Taylor Edgerton, Missouri As ever, I thank you for your support and look forward to seeing you here soon. Ronald D. Winney Edwardsville, Illinois Dr. Rob Havers Executive Director George K. Parkins Prairie Village, Kansas National Churchill Museum Suzanne D. Richardson St. Louis, Missouri Autumn 2013 | Volume 4 | Issue 3 Paintings and Politics 4 by Justin D. Lyons Three Lessons in Leadership 12 by Philip White Book Review: How Churchill Got His Start, 20 in Politics and in Love by James W. Muller A Moment in History 22 by Scott Porter — Page 4 — Save the Date for the 2014 Enid and 23 R. Crosby Kemper Lecture Message from the Director of Development: 24 DeFer Family Celebrates with a Gift to the Museum by Kit Freudenberg From the Archives: A Churchillian Trip 26 by Liz Murphy — Page 22 — Educational and Public Programming: 27 School and Community Update The National Churchill Museum is by Mandy Plybon located on the Westminster College campus in Fulton, Missouri, and designated by Congress as America's Letters to the Editor National Churchill Museum. 573-592-5369, www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org 28 by Dr. Rob Havers Copyright material by Winston S. Churchill is reprinted within The Churchillian with 31 Calendar of Events the permission of Curtis Brown, London, on behalf of the Estate of Sir Winston Churchill. Cover photo: Winston Churchill self-portrait, probably done in Sir John Lavery’s studio PAINTING AND POLITICS: Understanding Churchill Through His Essay on His Hobby At issue today— as it was then— is a fundamental question: what is Opposite page: the proper Oblivious of everything but his subject, Churchill frequently relationship set up his easel in public places. Here he paints in Italy during his holiday of between the September, 1945, attracting the usual individual and gaggle of onlookers. A detective appears to be shooing away the photographer, the community? who was likely in a boat! Churchill detested all political forms that would absolutely subordinate the individual to the state, and he BY JUSTIN D. LYONS never ceased to Justin Lyons is an Associate Professor of Political Science and History at Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio combat them in Photographs reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, word and deed. London on behalf of the Broadwater Collection Paintings copyright Churchill Heritage 4 the Churchillian | Autumn 2013 the Churchillian | Autumn 2013 5 We may be sure that Churchill’s ary pastime: “painting a picture is view of the subject was colored by like fighting a battle.” As First Lord his own experiences, and we have of the Admiralty, he had inhabited the advantage of a rich supply of an office at the apex and intersec- his reflections and deeds on which tion of politics and war. He had to draw. Did Churchill intend all laid plans he deemed crucial to that I see in his essay? While I success—and had seen them go suspect he did, I cannot prove it; awry. Painting helped him recover but that does not extinguish the from the shock and disappoint- value of seeking the broader ment, but it did not turn him from suggestions of the work. When all contemplation of what ought to be is said, my experiment in reading, done about the war. While the like Churchill’s foray into painting, surface of Churchill’s mind was is “at any rate not violently harmful completely absorbed in the activity to man or beast.”1 of painting, its main currents plunged forward inexorably hen teaching my SeTTING The SCENE nonetheless. Churchill seminar, I Note first that the context of The purpose of a pastime is to end the course with a Churchill’s essay is military and refresh the mind so that the tools broad consideration of political. Churchill relates how, of our main trade may be more Wthe topic of statesmanship. when he left the Admiralty in the energetically grasped when the Churchill’s career and writings wake of the Dardanelles disaster, holiday is ended. Painting was to provide us a vast field of reflection, he was in the painful position of be Churchill’s welcome companion but I like to use a famous essay on being completely powerless to throughout the remainder of his another subject to get my students direct events: life, but its siren call was to begin to consider the attributes intermittent. Always he plunged necessary for a statesman. I had long hours of utterly back into the realm of action. “Painting as a Pastime” is not an unwonted leisure in which to essay usually thought to have much contemplate the frightful AuDACITY unfolding of the War. At a to offer in terms of political Churchill’s first efforts at painting moment when every fibre of my wisdom, and students are initially being was inflamed to action, were uncertain. Some experiments taken aback by the thought of I was forced to remain a spectator with his children’s paint box considering it as a guide to of the tragedy, placed cruelly in spurred him to attempt it on an statesmanship. Ostensibly it a front seat. And then it was that adult scale. Yet he quickly found describes Churchill’s experience the Muse of Painting came to that having the tools was one thing with oil painting, a hobby he my rescue…. and employing them was another: picked up at the age of forty, and “Having bought the colours, an praises that art as one that Painting provided a diversion; easel, and a canvas, the next step sharpens and refreshes the mind.
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