John Banting, recipient: Margaret Low

Folded card from John Banting to Humphrey Spender and Margaret Low

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Created by: John Banting 1902–1971
Recipient: Margaret Low died 1945
Title: Folded card from John Banting to Humphrey Spender and Margaret Low
Date: [c.1930s]
Medium: Collage and ink on card
Dimensions: 153 × 429 mm
Description: This card, with writing and a collage using the coloured foil from sweet wrappers, begins, 'Sugars!', and John Banting continues by thanking Spender and Low for the invitation to visit them. 'It would be like what now seems to be old times'. He explains that he will try if he can, but fears it may be too difficult to leave his mother.
Format: Artwork - on paper, unique
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: This collection was presented to the Tate Archive by Humphrey Spender in 1997.
Reference: TGA 9717/1/21

Vorticism Surrealism