Browse Exhibits (3 total)
Ink & Dust: Unveiling Ney's Original Letters
The Digital Collections of the Elisabet Ney Museum contain correspondence and other materials that document not only the history of the museum but also the history of Ney herself.
This exhibition serves to highlight documents in the digital archive that Elisabet Ney either created herself or documents that were sent to her by her friends and associates. It focuses primarily on her personal friendships with people like the Bickler family and Emma Burleson, but it also includes more professional records such as a log of sittings for William Jennings Bryan and letters from Ney's business associates, Friedrich Ochs and Karl Dürck.
The Artist as Subject: A Portrait of Elisabet
"People will come to know Elisabet Ney as she really was...a woman of nobility, extremey talented and endowed with a pioneering spirit far beyond the times, rather than the 'character' as Texians labelled her..." So writes the Elisabet Ney Museum's first curator, Willie B Rutland (also known as Mrs. J. W. Rutland).
This exhibition serves to highlight documents and photographs in this digital archive that represent the history of securing a portrait of Elisabet Ney, painted by American artist Adrian Lamb in the late 1950s. The exhibit especially focuses on the correspondence between Lamb and Willie B. Rutland, as well as the curator's years-long fundraising efforts to finance the portrait.
The Hermit Philosopher of Liendo
"[I seek to] give an exposition of the life and labors of Dr. Montgomery and to show that his best claim to immortality is not the fact that he was Elisabet Ney's husband." - Ira K. Stephens in The Hermit Philosopher of Liendo
This exhibition serves to highlight documents in this digital archive that are related to Dr. Edmund Montgomery, whom Elisabet Ney married in 1863. The exhibit primarily highlights the correspondence between the Elisabet Ney Museum's first curator, Willie B. Rutland (also known as Mrs. J. W. Rutland), and the author of The Hermit Philosopher of Liendo, Ira Kendrick Stephens, as he conducted research in various archives and museums across the state. Stephens's book was a biography of Dr. Montgomery, which the author hoped could establish the philosopher's work apart from his famous wife.