Elisabet Ney papers
name: label: Creator
content: Ney, Elisabet, 1833-1907
label: Names
content: Elisabet Ney Museum (Austin, Tex.)
place: label: Place
content: Egypt -- description and travel
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- Texas -- Austin
label: Topic
content: Portrait sculpture, American
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming, 1984, by the Elisabet Ney Museum via James Fisher, as part of the Archives of American Art's Texas project.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ney, Elisabet, 1833-1907
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Portrait sculptor; Austin, Texas.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.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- Texas
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Items (microfilm reels)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1865-1984
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.neyelisp
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3341-3345 available for use only at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in Elisabet Ney Museum Austin, Texas.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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 material, brochures and clippings about Ney and the museum; photographs, 1896-1961, of Ney, Ney with her work, and in her studio.