War sketches by Winnie-the-Pooh artist on display in Oxfordshire
2025-01-18
Category: entertainment

Drawings by Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator E. H. Shepard have gone on display as part of a new exhibition. Shepard's Great War Sketches are on loan from the University of Surrey Archives and The Shepard Trust.The display at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum runs until 31 August alongside some of his beloved children's illustrations and comic art.  A series of talks and a full programme of family events will run alongside it. 
Ernest H Shepard is best known as the original illustrator for A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and the 1931 edition of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.He served as an officer in the First World War from 1915 and regularly documented the conflict in pencil sketches, pen and ink drawings, and even watercolours. 
The exhibition includes some of his war service kit, such as his Royal Garrison Artillery officer's forage cap and identification tags.Dates for all the activities linked to the display are on the museum's website. 
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