Around 1868 or 1869 she traveled through Southern Europe and Northern Africa with her parents and spent six weeks in Egypt, where she received art training from Sanford R. Gifford.

[citation needed] Eva filed for divorce from William Muse in the district court of Santa Fe County in June 1890.

[2] She commissioned Robert D. Farquhar to design a house, known as the Fenyes Mansion, and now the home of the Pasadena Museum of History.

[5] Fényes was a member of the Landmarks Club of California, the Pasadena Music and Art Association, and the Southwest Society.

With the urging of Charles Fletcher Lummis she created over 300 landscapes which often included Southwest architecture features such as missions and adobe structures.