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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.