Education and Training
Industrial School of Art (now University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1913-1914
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1914-1918
Veteran of WWI
Cresson Traveling Fellowship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Europe, 1920
Travel to Europe, particularly Paris, France, 1924

Teachers and Influences
Studied under Henri McCarter at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Pablo Picasso and Vasily Kandinsky, Paris, France
William Blake, England

Connection to Bucks County
Although he traveled widely, Ney lived in New Hope for forty years. He changed the face of New Hope. Building and remodeling property on Mechanic Street, he transformed it into an artist's community, dubbed the Latin Quarter. He also built the Tow Path House in New Hope. Ney introduced an abstract, non objective aesthetic to the area. Unlike the impressionists who dominated the New Hope art scene, Ney was an outspoken modernist. In 1927 he led a group of progressive artists in their secession from Phillips Mill, which they regarded as too conservative. Ironically, in 1960 his painting won top prize at the Phillips Mill

Exhibition. He was building a Ney Museum of art in New Hope, although he died a few weeks before its completion. Ney discovered the paintings of Joseph Pickett, a New Hope shop keeper. He bought them for $15, later selling them to a dealer. Today Pickett is recognized as a great primitive painter.

Colleagues and Affiliations
Harry Rosin
Members of the New Group and the Independents, such as Peter Keenan, Robert Hogue, R.A.D. Miller, Charles Evans, Ralston Crawford, Henry Baker, C.F. Ramsey and other modernists.
Discovered naive painter Joseph Pickett
Established a gallery in the old Pickett store for other non-objective artists
Developed Mechanic Street as a street of shops and built the Towpath House Restaurant, in 1947
Ney built his own museum on Ney Alley, New Hope, 1964
In October of 1978, Ney widow, Jean, and his daughter Gretchen Laugier, opened the museum for an 85th anniversary exhibition of his paintings.