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. The correspondence in this collection spans the period from the early 1930s to circa. 1970. Many of these letters are illustrated and decorated by John Banting. Meanwhile 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.
- 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
36 objects 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. The correspondence in this collection spans the period from the early 1930s to circa. 1970. Many of these letters are illustrated and decorated by John Banting. Meanwhile 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.
- Reference
- TGA 9717
Showing 1–20 of 36 objects
John Banting Cyanotype blueprint proof by John Banting
1932
John Banting, recipient: John Humphrey Spender One page with four graphite sketches of Humphrey Spender by John Banting
[c.1932]
John Banting, recipient: John Humphrey Spender One page with six graphite sketches of Humphrey Spender by John Banting
[c.1932]
John Banting, recipient: John Humphrey Spender Letter from John Banting to Humphrey Spender written on the back of a trimmed cyanotype proof print by John Banting
[c.1936]
John Banting, recipient: John Humphrey Spender Letter from John Banting to Humphrey Spender, on the back of a trimmed cyanotype blueprint proof by John Banting
[c.1936–7]
John Banting, recipient: John Humphrey Spender Postcard from John Banting to Humphrey Spender
[3 June 1937]
John Banting, recipient: John Humphrey Spender Letter from John Banting to Humphrey Spender
[c.1937]
John Banting, recipient: Margaret Low Letter from John Banting to Humphrey Spender and Margaret [‘Lolly’] Low
[1938]
John Banting, recipient: Margaret Low Letter from John Banting to Humphrey Spender and Margaret Low
1 July 1938
John Banting, recipient: John Humphrey Spender Letter from John Banting to Humphrey Spender
[1938]
John Banting, recipient: John Humphrey Spender Postcard from John Banting to Humphrey Spender
[1 December 1938]
John Banting, recipient: John Humphrey Spender Correspondence card from John Banting to Humphrey Spender
[c.December 1938]
John Banting, recipient: John Humphrey Spender Note from John Banting to Humphrey Spencer
[c.1938–9]
John Banting, recipient: John Humphrey Spender Letter from John Banting to Humphrey Spender
[c.1938–9]
John Banting, recipient: Margaret Low Letter from John Banting to Humphrey Spender and Margaret Low, written on the back of a blue line-block proof by John Banting with pencil markings
[c.1939–40]
John Banting, recipient: John Humphrey Spender Charcoal drawing with letter written on the drawing from John Banting to Humphrey Spender
[c.1930s]
John Banting, recipient: Margaret Low Letter from John Banting to Humphrey Spender and Margaret Low
[c.1930s]
John Banting, recipient: John Humphrey Spender Postcard from John Banting to Humphrey Spender
[c.1930s]
John Banting, recipient: Margaret Low Letter from John Banting to Humphrey Spender and Margaret Low
[c.1930s]