Portraits of Courage, full title Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors is a book published in 2017 that includes a collection of oil paintings and stories about military veterans by U.S. former President George W. Bush.

Bush's painting started as a post-presidency pastime. He created a set of paintings in the evenings as a way to commemorate some of the veterans he has met since leaving office in 2009. This book is his first art book. It contains sixty-six full-color portraits and a four-panel mural based on photographs of ninety-eight physically and/or mentally wounded U.S. Armed Forces veterans (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force) of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars as painted by President Bush. Bush wrote the descriptive prose that accompanies each painting. Bush donated his share of the proceeds from the book to the non-profit George W. Bush Presidential Center.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portraits_of_Courage

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Artist-in-chief: Former President George W. Bush, inspired by Winston Churchill, has taken up a paintbrush in retirement, and the result is a best-selling art book that honors service members and veterans.
Bush’s Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors (Crown) lands at No. 3 this week.

The men and women in Courage, many of them wounded, are individuals Bush knows personally, and he writes a narrative portrait to accompany each impressionistic painting. In his introduction, Bush says he “hopes to draw attention to the challenges some face when they come home and transition to civilian life — and the need for our country to better address them.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/b...ooks/98854506/