January 1, 1970

A cast of one of Nemon’s busts of Churchill was recently unveiled at the US Capitol before the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and Churchill’s grandson.

The work – a rare Estate casting of a historic Churchill bust sculpted from life by Oscar Nemon – was donated to the Capitol by The Churchill Centre and funded by Laurence Geller. Only two other copies are in existence – in the Churchill War Rooms in London and in the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow.

There are two other notable busts of Churchill in Washington DC both by British artist Sir Jacob Epstein; one at the White House and the other at the British Embassy. The former is located just outside the Treaty Room (now used as the President’s study) on the second floor of the White House residence. This bust was donated to the White House in 1965 by a group of Churchill’s wartime American friends lead by Averell Harriman. The Embassy bust was previously on loan to Pres. George W. Bush and displayed in the Oval Office during his Presidency (2001 – 2009).

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