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Title: Frances Toor Collection
Dates: ca. 1930
Collection Number: S2016.5
Creator/Collector:
Frances Toor
Extent: .6 linear feet (2 boxes, 247 items)
Repository:
Palm Springs Art Museum
Palm Springs, California 92263
Abstract: The collection relates to Mexico, including pre-Columbian objects, paintings and works on paper by Mexican modernists, and
other artworks were likely collected by Frances Toor and following her death, acquired by inheritance by her brother Herbert
Toor. Frances Toor, American, 1890-1956, was an American author, publisher, anthropologist and ethnographer whose books and
journal "Mexican Folkways" introduced Americans to the folk traditions and art of revolutionary Mexico. She received her MA
Anthropology from UC Berkeley.
Language of Material: English
The collection is open to qualified researchers by appointment only.
No interpretive restriction is placed on material. Separate permissions to be obtained for publishing material. Property
rights to the physical object belong to the Palm Springs Art Museum. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by
the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue
the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where Palm Springs Art Museum does not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item]. Frances Toor Collection . Collection Number: S2016.5. Palm Springs Art Museum
Donated by her brother Herbert Toor.
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection (ca. 1930) includes black & white photographs of Mexican murals, muralists, and other related documents. Notes
on photographs indicate these may have been used for publications.
Art - Mexican
Mexican - Artists
Toor, Frances (1890-1956) - Archives
Mexico
Anthropologists - United States