Texas - Elisabet Ney

• Terms: Elisabet Ney (1016), Elisabet Ney Museum (392), Elisabet Ney Sculpture Conservatory (37), Elisabet Ney Conservatory (3), Elizabeth Ney (118), Austin Sculpture Center (41), Ney, Elisabet (32)

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• Elisabet Ney Museum - www.ElisabetNey.Org - The Museum is the former studio and portrait collection created by nineteenth-century sculptor Elisabet Ney. Biography, Works, Bibliography
  
  

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• Books about Elisabet Ney
  
  
• The Art of the Woman The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney (Women in the West) by Emily Fourmy Cutrer - Editorial Reviews, Customer Reviews
  
  
• Marble Dust The Life of Elisabet Ney An Interpretation by Marjorie Goar
  
  
• Elisabet Ney Sculptor of American Heroes by Marjorie Von Rosenberg
  
  

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• Elisabet Ney Elementary - Elisabet Ney Elementary was the first school in Lake Jackson. The Pioneers of Lake Jackson refer to this school as the "Little School That Grew and Grew!" In 1961, the Lake Jackson Primary School was officially named Elisabet Ney Elementary after the famous Texas sculptress.
  
  
• Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Manuscript Collections (512) 471-9119 - Found UT Center for Women's Studies
  
  
  • Ney, Elisabet 1833-1907 U.S. sculptor; artist; writer 13
    
    
  • Eugene C Barker Texas History Center - Ney, Elisabet, Papers. 1859-1939. 1 ft.; manuscript. Correspondence documenting the career of Ney (1833-1907), sculptress, whose commissions included statues of Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston, and General Albert Sidney Johnston.
    
    
• Smithsonian - [Search Archival, Manuscripts & Photographic Collections Catalog] - Learn More About This Collection
  
  
  • Elisabet Ney papers, 1865-1984 5 microfilm reels, reels 3341-3345 - 35mm microfilm reels 3341-3345 available for use only at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and through interlibrary loan.
    
    
  • Texas Fine Arts Association records 1911-1980 6 microfilm reels, 2701-2706 - Art organization; Austin, Texas. Founded in 1911 for the purpose of preserving Elisabet Ney's sculpture, after her death in 1907. 35mm microfilm reels 2701-2706 available for use only at AAA's Southern California office- Huntington Library, San Marino, California; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and through interlibrary loan. Location of Original: Originals returned to the lender, Deney Stygstra, after microfilming.
    
    
  • SIRIS-Art Inventories - Enter "Ney, Elisabet" in the Artist Browse and Press Go.
    
    
    • Ney, Elisabet, 1833-1907, sculptor (28 Titles) - Location and Description of many of her works
    • Ney, Elizabet, 1833-1907, sculptor. (possibly by)
      
      
• Dorothy Sloan- Rare Books - Past Auctions
  
  
  • Auction 6 (January 10, 1998) - Lots 61-70- Montana Territory — Ney, Elisabet
    
    
    • 69. NEY, Elisabet (1833-1907). Archive of 65 manuscripts, letters, typescripts, and printed materials written by and about the noted sculptress. Texas, Germany, etc., 1894-1924. Approximately 329 pages, various sizes. Very good to very fine. Original autograph material by Ney rarely appears on the market. ... This extremely important archive contains Ney's holographic copy book kept during her trip to Germany in the 1890s; contracts for major sculptural works; lectures on art and aesthetics; supplementary material on Ney's life by her only student, Nannie Huddle; 25 newspaper clippings (1899-1965). Sold $4600
      
      
    • 70. NEY, Elisabet (1833-1907). Plaster circular medallion with bas-relief bust portrait of Ella Dancy Dibrell. 21.8 cm. (8-11/16 inches) in diameter; 2 cm. (7/8 inch) thick. Signed with incised letters on rim: "Elisabet Ney Sc. Seguin Tex. 1900." Fine, in contemporary round gilt frame. ... A graceful sculptural portrait, displaying the artist’s delicate, yet strong and realistic style. Ella Dancy Dibrell, the subject of this beautiful portrait, was from Austin and a close friend of Elisabet Ney.
      
      
  • Auction 4 Lots 133-151
    
    
    • 148. NEY, Elisabet. Plaster cast, circular medallion with bas-relief bust portrait of a Renaissance woman, lettered VXOR BERNARDVS BARBIGE NONII[]STROZA - image
      
      
    • 149. NEY, Elisabet. Autograph letter, signed, to Mr. & Mrs. W. Graham. Formosa, Hyde Park, Austin, Texas, February 29, 1900. 2 pp., 4to, on pictorial stationery (with half-tone illustration of Ney’s studio, Formosa), written in pencil, recipient’s manuscript note on p. [3].
      
      
• Elisabet Ney - Article and Photographs by Sharon Boynton, Published by John Robert Boynton
  
  
• Galveston and Texas History Center - Vertical Files - NEY, ELISABET
  
  
• Humanities Interactive - Elisabet Ney in her Austin Studio - Larger Image
  
  
• Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - Elisabet Ney Museum History (excellent article, no links)
  
  
• Richardson Independent School District - Texas Biographies (no info online)
  
  
• National Register of Historical Places - TEXAS (TX), Travis County
  
  
  • Ney, Elisabet, Studio and Museum ** (added 1972 - Building - #72001374) Also known as Formosa 304 E. 44th St., Austin
    
    
• Museums USA Home - Elisabet Ney Museum (good profile)
  
  
• Nederland (TX) ISD - Elisabet Ney (Article by unknown author)
  
  
• Elisabet Ney (1833-1907) - Article. Both Ney and Edmund Montgomery are buried at the Liendo plantation near Hempstead. - Lone Star Junction - A Texas and Texas History Resource
  
  
• National Museum of Women in the Arts - Library and Research Center
  
  
• Women Artists Through Time (9-19th Century) (links) - 20th Century
  
  
  • bust of Sam Houston by Elisabet Ney
    
    
• Women Artists (no reference) - Links
  
  
• Women In American History - Ney, Elisabet
  
  
• Women Artists in History (no reference at this time)
  
  
• Artists Monographs M-S - Cutrer, Emily Fourmy. The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney. Lincoln: U NE Press, 1988. Cloth; 270pp; 39 photographs of Ney's sculpture. Born in Germany, Ney settled in Texas. Bibliographical essay. F/F. #c3374.
  
  
• Elizabeth Johns, Visiting Fellow - "A Second-rate rebel," Emily F. Cutrer, The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney (Lincoln and London, 1988), The Times Literary Supplement no. 4,481 (February 17-23, 1989):160.
  
  
• Multi-Cultural - ELISABET NEY: Sculptor of American Heroes By Marjorie von Rosenberg. Explains the life of the German sculptress who selected Texas as home. Paperback ISBN 0-89015-993-9 64 pages, 8½ x 11. illustrated.
  Reading Level: 4.4
  
  
• Texas Musicians and Artist Site - Southwest Artists - Ney, Elisabet (1833-1907); Variant-name: Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabet Ney; Active: 1893 1904; State: Texas; Note: Born in Europe / Died in Texas; Skill: Sculptor; Exhibited: E010 U.S.C.B. T.S.C.B.; Represented: U.S.C.B. T.S.A.C. N.E.Y. W.I.T.T.; Listed: 522 520 474 F 534; Rating: 15
  
  
• UBC Library - MARION Ney, Elisabet, 1833-1907
  • Cutrer, Emily Fourmy, 1942
    The art of the woman : the life and work of Elisabet Ney /
    Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1988.
    
    
  • Taylor, Bride Neill, 1858-1937.
    Elisabet Ney, sculptor. [microform]
    New York, Devin-Adair [1916]
    
    
• Architect of the Capitol - National Statuary Hall Collection Sculptors
  
  
  • Ney, Elisabet
    
    
    • Stephen Austin (Texas)
    • Sam Houston (Texas)
      
      
• Ney, Elisabet, 1833-1907 Elisabet Ney, full-length portrait, standing by sculpture, facing slightly right.
  
  
• e-history's Geographic Places in Texas-T - Ney, Elisabet, Studio and Museum--Austin (Travis)
  
  
• Austin About.Com - Famous Women in Austin History
  
  
  • Ney, Elisabet - Her studio in Austin is now a museum. Her sculptures grace both our State Capitol and our National Capitol. Here is a brief biography.
    
    

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• ARTS Ed Staff - Elena Ronquillo, Arts Ed Director - Program Coordinator for the Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin, TX
  
  

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• Philosophy of History - Ney's Home and Studio
  
  
  • Arthur Schopenhauer
    
    
• The Capitol Project at the University of Virginia - Listing of Sculptures
  
  
  • Stephen F. Austin, Texas, statue by Elisabet Ney, 1904, 6'2" (Small house rotunda)
    
    
  • Samuel Houston, Texas, statue by Elisabet Ney, 1904, 6'10" (Statuary Hall)
    
    

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• The Texas Society of Sculptors - Austin Sculpture Center (formerly The Elisabet Ney Sculpture Conservatory) offers sculpting classes. Contact: asc@tsos.org or (512) 371-7606 in Austin Texas USA.
  
  
• Webshots Community - Elisabet Ney Classes - pictures of polymer class figurative sculpture classes taught by Leslie Hancock at the Elisabet Ney Sculpture Conservatory
  
  
• Artists Harvest - Fine Arts Exhibit and Sale - Austin, TX - The first grant in 1986 went to Elisabet Ney Sculpture Conservatory in Austin to purchase a kiln for its sculpture students.
  
  
• Kelly Borsheim, Borsheim Arts Studio - In late 1994, she began to study sculpture at the Elisabet Ney Sculpture Conservatory (now called the Austin Sculpture Center). Contact: sculptor@borsheimarts.com or (512) 303-3929 in Cedar Creek Texas USA - Sculptural Anatomy Class by Artist Kelly Borsheim
  
  
• Sculptor Beth Perry Schoen has studied at the Elisabet Ney Sculpture Conservatory in Austin, Texas, with Bobby Pearl and Master Sculptor Edna Bargar Connor.
  
  

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• A Guide for Austin Visitors - Elisabet Ney Museum (bio and history, directions)Austin Museum Partnership - AMP Museum Tour Elisabet Ney Museum
  
  
• Artcom Museums Tour - Elizabet Ney Museum
  
  
• Elisabet Ney Museum profile - Local hotels, festivals, schools, colleges, newspapers - ePodunk
  
  
• Captain's page - Some of my favorite Austin Parks and Places
  
  
• AllLinked.Com - Ney's Prometheus, Ney Tribute, Ney's Legacy in Hyde Park, Virtually Hyde Park
  
  
• Metropolitan Austin Interactive Network - MAIN.org - A-G - The Elisabet Ney Museum
  
  
• Austin Texas (Texas Cities) - Elisabet Ney Museum - Art Museums
  
  
• AustinTexas Attractions, recreation, Things to do, Austin TX - Elisabet Ney Museum
  
  
• Canvas Magazine Texas Museums - Elisabet Ney Museum (Texas Handbook)
  
  
• Links to Mystery and Classical sites - Elisabet Ney and her Austin sculpture studio, Formosa (now the Elisabet Ney Museum), the site of a crucial scene in Steven’s novel, A Twist at the End.