Letters, drawings and a sketchbook from John Banting to Humphrey Spender
[1930s–1960s]
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This collection consists of material sent from John Banting to the photographer and Mass Observation researcher, Humphrey Spender, from which one sketchbook, dated 'August 1936' has been digitised. The sketchbook appears to cover a period before John Banting's solo exhibition at the Storran Gallery in 1938 and includes drawings of unidentified individuals who may have been friends of Banting at this time, as well as numerous sketches of natural and abstract or surreal forms. Items of correspondence, also contained within this collection, suggest that Spender may have taken this sketchbook to work on when staying in the Spender's cottage in Sussex. Details of this correspondence, as well as further loose sketches and proof prints sent from Banting to Spender can be found on the Archive Catalogue.
- Collection Owner
- John Humphrey Spender 1910–2005
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- This collection was presented to the Tate Archive by Humphrey Spender in 1997.
- Reference
- TGA 9717
1 object in this collection
- Title
- Letters, drawings and a sketchbook from John Banting to Humphrey Spender
- Date
- [1930s–1960s]
- Description
- This collection consists of material sent from John Banting to the photographer and Mass Observation researcher, Humphrey Spender, from which one sketchbook, dated 'August 1936' has been digitised. The sketchbook appears to cover a period before John Banting's solo exhibition at the Storran Gallery in 1938 and includes drawings of unidentified individuals who may have been friends of Banting at this time, as well as numerous sketches of natural and abstract or surreal forms. Items of correspondence, also contained within this collection, suggest that Spender may have taken this sketchbook to work on when staying in the Spender's cottage in Sussex. Details of this correspondence, as well as further loose sketches and proof prints sent from Banting to Spender can be found on the Archive Catalogue.
- Reference
- TGA 9717
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