For artist Don Wiegand, the commission was an honor and a challenge. His charge was to capture in bronze perhaps the most memorable moment in Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech. The sculpture would stand watch and greet visitors outside America’s National Churchill Museum (ANCM) at Westminster College, the Missouri school where Churchill gave his historic address on 5 March 1946.
There are many commanding statues of Churchill, including those sculpted by David McFall, Franta Belsky, Lawrence Holofcener, Ivor Roberts-Jones, and Oscar Nemon. All these famous artists depict Churchill
