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An avid painter, Churchill completed more than 500 paintings throughout his life—but only one during the course of World War II. He created a scene from Marrakesh, Morocco—“The Tower of Koutoubia Mosque”—as a gift for President Franklin D. Roosevelt shortly after the 1943 Casablanca Conference. (Photo courtesy of M.S. Rau Antiques, New Orleans)