Num Num - This Summer I Went Swimming (Original)

Artist: Gordon Hutchings
Medium: Gouache on Acid-free Board
Size: 11" x 13" (285mm x 330mm)
Date: c. 1968
Code: HutchingsGNN10

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Gordon Hutchings.

These stories appeared in the short-lived children's pre-school title TV Toyland which was published between 1966-67 before being merged with the more well known Playhour.

Num Num and his funny friends bring the seaside to their home with a swimming pool in the garden. The artwork probably dates from the late 1960's but has been remounted for a later, probably mid-1970s reprint.

• Artist Biography
  Gordon Hutchings
  Gordon Hutchings took over the long-running Gulliver Guinea-Pig strip from Philip Mendoza around 1961 and his crisp charming work appeared in Playhour and later the Teddy Bear Annual.