Onya La Tour papers
name: label: Creator
content: La Tour, Onya, 1896-1976
label: Names
content: Federal Art Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project
label: Names
content: Indiana Museum for Modern Art
label: Names
content: Onya La Tour Gallery
topic: label: Occupation
content: Gallery directors -- New York (State)
label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- Indiana
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material lent for microfilming 1973 by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The Indianapolis Museum of Art also holds additional papers not included on the microfilm.
creator: label: Creator
content: La Tour, Onya, 1896-1976
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art collector, dealer, artists' model; Columbus, Ind. La Tour founded the Indiana Museum for Modern Art, Brown County, Indiana, which no longer exists. She was director of the Federal Art Gallery, N.Y., and the Onya La Tour Gallery, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1928-1969
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.latoonya
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 802-808 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 30 diaries, 1930-1969, some illustrated; files on artists, family members and friends containing correspondence, sketches, biographical information and photographs; correspondence and clippings relating to the Indiana Museum for Modern Art; a scrapbook of sketches by artist friends, mostly by Helen West Heller, photographs, poems and short stories written for her; material relating to the Federal Art Gallery of the WPA, 1936-1937; material relating to the Onya La Tour Gallery, 1938-1939; a proposal for an art gallery in Puerto Rico, and miscellany. Among the correspondents are Rifka Angel, Maurice Becker, David Burliuk, Stuart Davis, Katherine Dreier, John D. Graham, Helen West Heller, Roy Hirshburg, Joseph Konzal, Larry Lebduska, Guy and Genoi Pettit McCoy, Emanuel Romano; Robert Morris, Ann Goldthwaite and others.