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Emily Cole & Valerie Hegarty: LIFE CYCLES <\/i>presents a visual dialogue of two craft-based women artists across three centuries: 19<\/span><\/span>th<\/span><\/span>-century artist Emily Cole<\/span>, daughter of Thomas Cole,<\/span>\u00a0and 21<\/span><\/span>st<\/span><\/span>-century artist Valerie Hegarty. The spotlight exhibition is on view in the <\/span>Sitting Room\u00a0<\/span>Gallery of the 1815 Main House.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
The exhibition juxtaposes <\/span>more than 30 works of\u00a0<\/span>painted porcelain and works on paper\u00a0<\/span>by<\/span> Emily Cole (1843\u20131913) with a mixed-media installation by Valerie Hegarty <\/span>titled <\/span><\/span>Emily Cole and Her Father, My Mother and Me (Thomas Cole\u2019s <\/span><\/span><\/em>View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm\u2014The Oxbow<\/span><\/span>, Blackberries, Wild Flowers,\u00a0<\/span>Robins<\/span>, Nest, and Wallpaper)<\/span><\/span><\/em>. <\/span>The work by Valerie\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Hegarty<\/span>\u00a0was made specifically for the Thomas Cole Site in 2025 and<\/span> explores the connection between Thomas Cole and Emily Cole and their fascination with cycles of life, while considering Hegarty\u2019s own relationship with her mother.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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\u00a0“A truly provocative foil for the works of Emily Cole”<\/strong>\u2014Two Coats of Paint<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\n“I wanted to push forward three generations of women\u2019s artistic labor that is historically undervalued, into one moment of the present and show a chain of inspiration and artistic influence spanning <\/span>nearly 200<\/span>\u00a0years from Emily Cole and her father to my mother and me. Within the ruins of this excavation, a bird feeds its chicks in the nest, suggesting the site as a source of inspiration for continuing generations.<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Valerie Hegarty, Emily Cole and Her Father, My Mother and Me (Thomas Cole\u2019s View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm\u2014The Oxbow, Blackberries, Wild Flowers, Robins, Nest, and Wallpaper),<\/em> 2025, Canvas, wood, cardboard, paper, wire, glue, air dry clay, foam, acrylics, 96 x 144 x 18 in., Collection of Richard T. Sharp\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Emily Cole,\u00a0Untitled (Plate with Blackberry Blossoms)<\/em>, ca. 1910, painted porcelain, 2\u00bc x 11 in., Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Gift of Edith Cole Silberstein, TC.2002.3 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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Emily Cole (1843-1913), Untitled (Orange Lily)<\/em>, July 1874, watercolor and pencil on paper, 7\u00bd x 5 5\/8 in., Thomas <\/span>Cole National Historic Site, Gift of Edith Cole Silberstein, TC.2002.2.19.2 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Emily Cole (1843-1913), Untitled (Sunflowers and Clover)<\/em>, n.d., watercolor and pencil on paper, 7 3\/8 x 9 in.,Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Gift of Edith Cole Silberstein, TC.2002.2.19.33 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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Emily Cole (1843-1913), Untitled (Plate with Bee Balm)<\/em>, ca. 1910, painted porcelain, 8\u00bd in. diameter, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Gift of Edith Cole Silberstein, TC.2002.2.2 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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