Elisabet Ney Museum • 304 East 44th Street at Avenue G
Elisabet Ney at Work in Formosa, circa 1900.
Elisabet Ney Entertaining at Formosa, circa 1892.
In 1892, internationally renowned portrait sculptor Elisabet Ney (1833-1907) established a studio, Formosa, now the Elisabet Ney Museum, on four acres in Austin's developing Hyde Park. Here, Ney resumed her career, sculpting Texas heroes, statesmen and dear friends and helping inspire an awareness of the importance of the arts that led to the founding of the Texas Fine Arts Association and numerous other organizations to support the arts in Texas that continue to this day.
The Elisabet Ney Museum is a National Historic Landmark and National Trust Associate Site. In 2002, the National Trust for Historic Preservation cited the Elisabet Ney Museum as “one of the most significant historic artists’ homes and studios in America.” In 2003, the Museum was named an official project of the Save America’s Treasures program, a White House initiative to support the preservation and celebration of America’s cultural treasures.
The Museum displays the Elisabet Ney Collection of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of The University of Texas. Ney's works are also exhibited in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, United States and Texas capitols and University of Texas and in numerous European museums, universities and royal castles.
