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George Cruikshank’s A Tailor in a High Wind

  • Author By Ava Zielinski '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Europe, Mead Art Museum, Print, Weather and Culture, Weather and People, Wind
A stylized depiction of a man holding an infant, facing into a strong wind, with their garments—including his wig—soaring into the air. The expressions on their faces show shock and horror.

Hiroshige’s Sudden Shower at Ohashi

  • Author By Julia Zacher '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Asia, Mead Art Museum, Print, Rain, Weather and People, Weather and the Built Environment
Woodblock print of a stormy, rainy scene. Travelers walk over a bridge and try to avoid the rain falling.

Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg’s Landscape with Overturned Wagon in a Storm

  • Author By Kayly Vargas '26
  • Categories: 19th Century, Clouds, Europe, Mead Art Museum, Painting, Storm, Weather and Destruction, Weather and People
A moody landscape of a dark forest, with a horse drawn wagon pulling through a path. In the stormy sky, lightening strikes down near the carriage.

Hiroshige’s View of Yedo

  • Author By Olivia Stewart '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Asia, Mead Art Museum, Print, Snow, Weather and People, Weather and the Built Environment
Woodblock print of a snowy canal scene in Edo, with figures in traditional clothing standing on a dock as a small boat approaches through falling snow.

George Rickey’s Two Lines Oblique Down

  • Author By Tim Souza '26
  • Categories: 20th Century, Mead Art Museum, North America, Sculpture, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Movement, Wind
A wide view of a tall, kinetic sculpture, a Y shaped thin metal post with two thin swinging antennas at the ends installed on a grassy courtyard.

Kobayashi Kiyochika’s Outbreak of Fire

  • Author By Braden Poon '27
  • Categories: 19th Century, Asia, Mead Art Museum, Print, Weather and Destruction, Weather and the Built Environment, Wind
Orange flames dominate the composition, driven rightward by wind. People flee on the right side of the canal. One of the unburned homes on the right has people on their roof observing.

Sarah Berman’s Rainy Street Scene

  • Author By Elizabeth Papalia '25
  • Categories: 20th Century, Mead Art Museum, North America, Painting, Rain, Weather and People, Weather and the Built Environment
Three women in brightly colored clothes and carrying umbrellas navigate a dark city street.

Edward Steichen’s The Flatiron

  • Author By Dulcie McGrath '28
  • Categories: 20th Century, Fog, Mead Art Museum, North America, Photograph, Rain, Weather and the Built Environment
A soft-focused, green toned photograph of the Flatiron building in Manhattan, NYC, at twilight. The view is foggy and blocked by a branch.

Satō Shintarō’s Shinkoiwa, Katsushika-ku (Snow)

  • Author By Harrison Lundy '25
  • Categories: 21st Century, Asia, Climate, Mead Art Museum, Photograph, Snow, Weather and Culture, Weather and the Built Environment
Dense three and four-story white and yellow buildings fill most of the image in an incongruous pattern, with snow-covered roofs. In the background, several bridges cross a river, and three skyscrapers dot the far skyline under a dark night sky.

Winslow Homer’s The Fisher Girl

  • Author By Ceci Malone '28
  • Categories: 19th Century, Fog, Mead Art Museum, North America, Painting, Weather and Nature, Weather and People
A young woman in a 19th-century working dress, carrying a large fishing net, surrounded by gray fog on the beach.
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