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Letters, drawings and a sketchbook from John Banting to Humphrey Spender
Correspondence, loose sketches and proof prints from John Banting to Humphrey Spender
Private view card of ‘Recent Works by John Banting’, at the Storran Gallery

John Banting

Private view card of ‘Recent Works by John Banting’, at the Storran Gallery

[1938]

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Created by: John Banting 1902–1971
Title: Private view card of ‘Recent Works by John Banting’, at the Storran Gallery
Date: [1938]
Description: One private view card for John Banting's exhibition at the Storran Gallery, Albany Courtyard, Piccadilly, from 4 October - 21 October 1938. The card is printed in pink ink and includes a poem, beginning, 'Livid cosmoramas...' On the other side is a [?reproduction of] a surrealist sketch by John Banting, of two surrealist figures, possibly with a canvas in the background on the right hand side of the picture.
Format: Document - printed ephemera
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: This collection was presented to the Tate Archive by Humphrey Spender in 1997.
Reference: TGA 9717/1/11

Vorticism Surrealism

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Letters, drawings and a sketchbook from John Banting to Humphrey Spender TGA 9717 (36)
- Correspondence, loose sketches and proof prints from John Banting to Humphrey Spender TGA 9717/1 (35)
- - Private view card of ‘Recent Works by John Banting’, at the Storran Gallery TGA 9717/1/11