Lloyd Raymond Ney papers
name: label: Creator
content: Ney, Lloyd Raymond, 1893-1964 or 5
label: Names
content: United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Rattner, Abraham
label: Names
content: Rebay, Hilla, 1890-1967
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- Ohio -- New London
label: Topic
content: Painting, Abstract -- Pennsylvania -- New Hope
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Muralists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Gretchen Ney Laugier, Ney's daughter. Microfilmed in 1989 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ney, Lloyd Raymond, 1893-1964 or 5
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lloyd Raymond Ney (1893-1964 or 5) was a Non-objective painter from New Hope, Pennsylvania and New York, N.Y. Known also as Bill Ney. Born in Friedenburg, Pennsylvania and studied at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Won a Cresson travelling scholarship in 1917 and upon completing his WWI tour in Europe, travelled to France with Abraham Rattner. Ney was commissioned to paint the post office in New London, Ohio by the Section of Fine Arts of the Department of Treasury which became a controversial issue. He was one of Hilla Rebay's favored non-objective painters.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1902-1987
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.neylloyr
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4234-4235 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan and at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Finding aid available on microfilm reel 4234.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material; correspondence; a diary; writings; art work; subject files; photographs; printed material; and two scrapbooks.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical accounts; a passport; a list of paintings in collections; a grant application; personal correspondence, including letters from Abraham Rattner from Paris describing the Parisian art scene; professional correspondence regarding the controversy ove Ney's mural for the New London, Ohio post office and letters from Hilla Rebay of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, N.Y.C.; a diary, 1918, chronicling Ney's army experience in France; a subject file containing preliminary drawings, clippings, and photographs of the New London mural; a sketchbook of mural studies; photographs of Ney's art works, portraits of Ney, and exhibition installations; clippings; exhibition catalogs and announcements; unpublished manuscripts; two typescripts by Hilla Rebay and James W. Riley; two scrapbooks containing photographs, printed material, and letters relating to Ney's studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; a drawing, "The Declaration of France," by Joseph Mielziner; miscellaneous printed material.