One look at this picture will take you back in time

Winne the Pooh is a timeless classic.  The stories written by AA Milne in the early 1900s are still as powerful to minds young and old today as they were then.

While the stories always entertain it’s the wonderful drawings of Christopher Robin’s group of animal friends that can immediately send an adult back to the time they were a little kid hearing the stories for the first time. The artwork was done by a British artist named Ernest H. Shepard. Now some of his original pencil artwork has gone on display at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery for a limited season.

The story of how the art got to Tasmania is an interesting one. Originally created between the 1920s and 1950s the drawings were in the possession of EH Shepard’s second wife Frances Carrol who then passed them on to her sister who lived in Tasmania. In 1981, they wee donated to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

Because of the frail paper and easily faded pencil, they are created with the drawings can’t be on regular display. But for now can offer a window into the creation of a much-beloved character.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTIGmW1DBwf/?taken-by=tasmuseum

Some other examples of EH Shepard’s work.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BKluPKlgRAw/?tagged=ehshepard

https://www.instagram.com/p/BS5j0Q-Flsy/?tagged=ehshepard

Where you a big fan of Winnie the Pooh as a child? Did you read them to your children or grandchildren?