Record Details
Tin Cowboy
Artist
Rene LaTour
((1905–?))
Datec. 1983
Place/RegionOrmond Beach, Florida, United States
MediumTin
Dimensions72 × 29 × 20"
Credit LineGift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.
Accession number1990.1.14
CopyrightCopyright for this work is under review.
DescriptionThis comical cowboy is the second life-size trade sign made by French-born metalsmith Rene LaTour. The figure stood briefly outside LaTour’s shop on 200 Yonge Street in Ormond Beach, Florida. LaTour spent a lifetime working in the metal industry, including a stint at NASA before opening his own shop, in 1959. He used 26- and 28-gauge galvanized steel to fashion more than a dozen cheerful clowns, ballerinas, and other figures drawn from popular culture.
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