Welcome to the world of Ernest Howard Shepard, born in London in 1879. Best known for his timeless illustrations of literary classics like Winnie-the-Pooh. As we reintroduce his art to today's audience, we celebrate his roles as an illustrator, contemporary artist, and cartoonist.

Ernest Howard Shepard OBE MC (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is known especially for illustrations of the anthropomorphic animal and soft toy characters in The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh .

Ernest H. Shepard was a successful British illustrator and painter best known for his illustrations for the The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne. His work, often created through a combination of watercolor and pen-and-ink, is characterized by light washes of color and graphic, black outlines.

Shepard made some of his best artwork after the publishing of the Pooh books and was pleased with the amount of commissions that were sent to him in the late 1920s. By 1931, Kenneth Grahame invited Shepard to illustrate his children’s classic The Wind in the Willows. Shepard stated “I was more excited when they offered me that than Pooh.”

When World War I began, Shepard saw action at the Battle of the Somme as part of the Royal Garrison Artillery, in which he was initially a second lieutenant in the 105th Siege Battery. His artistic abilities came into play after he was recruited by the Intelligence Department.

Best remembered for his classic Winnie the Pooh illustrations, Ernest Shepard had a storied career spanning more than 50 years.

2016年3月12日 · E. H. Shepard is inevitably best known for, and defined by, his iconic illustrations for the children’s books The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh, but he had many more artistic strings to his bow, as cartoonist, magazine and periodical illustrator, drawer of book jackets and covers, and author.

E. H. Shepard was a British children's book illustrator and cartoonist. Between 1907 and 1953, he contributed political cartoons and occasional comics to Punch magazine. He was particularly renowned for his skills in portraying anthropomorphic animals in rustic forest settings.

While E H Shepard is now best remembered for his immortal illustrations to Winnie-the-Pooh and The Wind in the Willows, he was a wide-ranging artist and illustrator, with an unsurpassed genius for representing children, and an underrated talent for political cartoons.

Artist in watercolour, pen and ink and oil; exemplary illustrator of almost 100 books. Born in London, his father was a keen amateur watercolourist, his mother’s was the Dicksee family, which produced several painters.