January 1, 1970

Hall conceived and arranged the first exhibition devoted solely to Churchill’s paintings and it opened in Kansas City where Truman pronounced them ‘Damn good’.

The exhibition, to which Churchill had somewhat reluctantly agreed (it was an idea favoured by his daughter, Sarah), toured in the US in 1958 to Detroit, New York, Washington, Providence, Dallas, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles. Proving popular, with over half a million visitors, it later toured in Canada, to Toronto, Montreal, Fredericton and Vancouver, and later, Australia and New Zealand, eventually coming to London – and the Royal Academy – the following year.

Click here to see a short clip of a woman holing a book written by Winston Churchill at the exhibition.

For the catalogue of the exhibition, see Winston Churchill the Painter .