"Where Destiny Places Them": Pivotal Works Revisited

In a letter dated May 3, 1904, the artist explained to her dear friend Bride Neill Taylor: "My life shall soon have ebbed away, the youthful pleasure of renown, if it can exist at my age, would be short lived." However, she insisted that her works would "speak for themselves where destiny places them." 

This exhibition highlights a few of Ney's monumental acheivements in art, including Lady Macbeth, sculptures of Texas icons like Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston, and mythological figures such as Prometheus Bound. Destiny has kept these works in the studio home of the artist, now the Elisabet Ney Museum, and we are pleased to share the stories behind a few of her most celebrated works with you.