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On Saturday we headed out to Dulwich Picture Gallery for their Tove Jansson exhibition. Although it's a relatively small exhibition space, sometimes I think they squeeze a lot into it, but not so much this time. There are plenty of Moomin pictures and related items, and appropriately Nordic illustrations for Swedish language editions of other works such as The Hobbit, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and The Hunting of the Snark, but it was Jansson's paintings such as Mysterious Landscape and The Family and drawings in the first two rooms that I found most striking, as well as a curious miscellany of propaganda works including wartime covers for Garm magazine and, in the last room, poster designs for environmental campaigns.