Emily Cole, Tea Pot, Cups and Saucers, Cream Pitcher and Sugar Bowl. Photo Pete Mauney, Courtesy Thomas Cole Historic SiteThe Art of Emily Cole, a book that belongs in every art-lover’s library. A spread from The Art of Emily Cole, showing her devotion to detail and faithfulness to the life of a plantEmily Cole, “Untitled (Lady’s-Slipper Orchids) from the beautiful book The Art of Emily ColeIn a webinar, Cole Site curator Amanda Malmstrom displays Emily Cole’s painting of irises alongside a photo of the plants growing in the garden outside the Cole houseA visitor admires Emily Cole’s tea set in the 2025 exhibition The Art of Emily Cole, in the New Studio at the Cole SiteCurator Amanda Malmstrom, in a 2025 webinar, explains the influence on Emily Cole of her father Thomas’ famous painting “The Voyage of Life”Autumn flowers that inspired Emily Cole’s work in the garden at the Cole Site, October 2025
