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Edith “Wanty” Thomas, recipient: Quarto

Typescript of Edith Thomas’s account of her relationship with Schwitters

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Edith “Wanty” Thomas 1915–1991
Recipient
Quarto
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Created by
Edith “Wanty” Thomas 1915–1991
Recipient
Quarto
Title
Typescript of Edith Thomas’s account of her relationship with Schwitters
Date
Description
This includes handwritten annotations and editing.
Format
Document - writings
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented by Edith Thomas's son, Geoff Thomas, in 1995.
Reference
TGA 9510/1/1
Romanticism Installation art Fancy Picture Grand Manner Merz

Archive context

  • Material relating to Kurt Schwitters compiled by his English companion, Mrs Edith ‘Wantee’ Thomas mostly after the artist’s death in 1948 TGA 9510 (139)
    • Writings about Schwitters by Edith Thomas TGA 9510/1 (2)
      • Typescript of Edith Thomas’s account of her relationship with Schwitters TGA 9510/1/1
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