Love's Labors: An Installation by Leslie Lyman at the White-Ellery House

TheCape Ann Museumtells multiple stories, all relating to a single remarkable place. From its earliest days as a fishing and shipping port to its mid-19th century role in the granite industry, to its singular charms of light and sea that have attracted countless artists from the 19th century to the present, Cape Ann boasts a rich and varied culture of nationally significant historical, industrial, and artistic achievement. The Museum'sfine art collectionincludes the largest grouping of works by native son and renowned marine artist,Fitz Henry Lane, as well as work by other prominent painters and sculptors who lived on, visited or were inspired by Cape Ann. The work of contemporary Cape Ann artists is also collected and exhibited. The permanent collection includes fine and decorative arts, and artifacts from the major industries of the area - the fisheries and granite quarrying.

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Love's Labors asks the viewer to look at the everyday work of women.

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The steady cooking, folding, stitching, mending, washing of domestic life. This type of work accumulates little tasks, little tasks that require consistency, constancy and care. Efforts that are often unseen and unacknowledged while also being critical to the daily functioning of a household. Making the invisible visible is essential to truly telling Herstory, over a lifetime and through generations. Leslie Lyman Artist StatementI create intimate impressions that mark and remember what history fails to tell us about the everyday lives of women – the daily efforts, the steady presence, the invisible toil, the love and the loss that we all experience. My objects and settings stand in perpetual tribute to this caregiving – women’s work – that persists through generations. My work deliberately blends old and new, fully aware that there are stories embedded deep within them and knowing that recollection, sentiment, intention and attention are passed on to the lives of other women.My art is informed by a lifetime of caregiving and an understanding of the historical lineage from which this work comes. There is evidence all around us. I document this evidence to increase awareness, understanding and appreciation of the quiet beauty, the many frustrations, and the enduring labor of nurturing.

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