Churchill as Artist, Historian, and Writer Winston Churchill was an(__)artist and took great pleasure in painting, especially after his resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915. He found a haven in art to overcome the spells of depression, or as he(__)it, the "Black Dog", which he suffered throughout his life. Churchill was persuaded and taught how to paint by his artist friend, Paul Maze, whom he met during the First World War. Maze was a great influence on Churchill's painting and became a lifelong painting(__). He is best known for his(__)landscape scenes, many of which were painted while on holiday in the South of France, Egypt or Morocco. He continued his(__)throughout his life and painted hundreds of paintings, many of which are on show in the 6)(__)at Chartwell as well as in private collections. Most of his paintings are oil-based and feature landscapes, but he also did a number of(__)scenes and portraits. Churchill was also a(__)writer of books, writing a novel, two biographies, three volumes of memoirs, and several histories in addition to his many newspaper articles. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 "for his(__)of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values". Two of his most famous works, published after his first premiership brought his international fame to new(__), were his six-volume memoir The Second World War and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.