Elisabet Ney papers
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Collection Overview ...... 1 Administrative Information ...... 1 Scope and Contents...... 1 Biographical / Historical...... 1 Names and Subjects ...... 2 Container Listing ...... Elisabet Ney papers AAA.neyelisp
Collection Overview
Repository: Archives of American Art
Title: Elisabet Ney papers
Identifier: AAA.neyelisp
Date: 1865-1984
Creator: Ney, Elisabet, 1833-1907
Extent: 5 Items (microfilm reels)
Language: English .
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information Lent for microfilming, 1984, by the Elisabet Ney Museum via James Fisher, as part of the Archives of American Art's Texas project. Location of Originals Originals in Elisabet Ney Museum Austin, Texas. Available Formats 35mm microfilm reels 3341-3345 available for use only at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and through interlibrary loan. Restrictions The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Biographical / Historical
Portrait sculptor; Austin, Texas. Born in Westphalia, Germany. Date of birth sometimes cited as 1830. She formed a band that came from Germany to Georgia to form a colony. When it disbanded in 1872 she bought a plantation in Texas. Famous people who sat for her include Garibaldi, Sam Houston, Bismark, Von Humboldt, Von Liebig, Jacob Grimm and Schopenhauer. The museum was founded in 1909.
Scope and Contents
Biographical accounts; a history of the Ney Museum; Ney family, business and Ney Museum correspondence, 1871-1981; a transcript of an interview with the museum's curator, Mrs. J.W. Rutland; articles and poems dedicated to Ney and 4 of her notebooks, 1865-1898, containing letters and accounts of her experiences with Guiseppe Garibaldi and her travels to Egypt; legal documents, Ney's marriage certificate, contracts for indenture, deeds and wills of her husband, Edmund Montgomery; financial records; organizational records of the museum including attendence figures, financial reports and minutes; printed
Page 1 of 2 Elisabet Ney papers AAA.neyelisp material, brochures and clippings about Ney and the museum; photographs, 1896-1961, of Ney, Ney with her work, and in her studio.
Names and Subject Terms
This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:
Subjects: Portrait sculpture, American Women artists Women sculptors
Names: Elisabet Ney Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Occupations: Sculptors -- Texas -- Austin
Functions: Art museums -- Texas
Places: Egypt -- description and travel
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