Austin, TX

Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin

Address: 304 East 44th St., Austin, Texas 78751 - MAP
Phone: (512) 458-2255
Web: www.ci.austin.tx.us

The Elisabet Ney Museum is located in Hyde Park and was the original studio of Elisabet Ney, a well-known 19th century sculptress from Europe who moved to Texas with her husband Edmund Montgomery. The couple hosted influential leaders and thinkers of the time, who then went on to establish the University of Texas Art Department, the Texas Commission on the Arts, the Texas Fine Arts Association and museums and art schools throughout the state.

The neo-classical studio and its contents were preserved by friends after Elisabet Ney's death in 1907. Before her death she sculpted notable leaders from around the world, including well-known Texans Stephen Austin and Sam Houston, whose portraits both stand in the national and state capitols today.