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Early Jurassic Slab with Raindrops

  • Author By Donovan Pitts '27
  • Categories: Beneski Museum of Natural History, North America, Prehistory, Rain, Specimen, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
A large, gray slab of rock features a mottled, undulating surface and a jagged edge.

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.

Jurassic Basalt Column

  • Author By Gabrielle Price '28
  • Categories: Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Prehistory, Specimen, Weather and Destruction, Weather and Science
A slab from a column of basaltic rock that formed when lava from a Massachusetts volcano cooled 190 million years ago.

Ian van Coller’s Lundi

  • Author By Mia Raven '27
  • Categories: 21st Century, Book, Climate, Europe, Fog, Frost Library Archives, North America, Weather and Destruction, Weather and Nature
Cover of Lundi by Ian van Coller, featuring an intricate orange cutout design on green fabric, with stylized puffins and floral motifs.

Sara Press’s Earth

  • Author By Manuel Rincon '25
  • Categories: 21st Century, Book, Climate, Frost Library Archives, North America, Weather and Destruction, Weather and Nature, Weather and Time
Large textbook next to a custom clamshell box, featuring a drawing of the Earth with its core exposed. The background is partially composed of red swirling lines that don’t cover the entire surface.

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.

Gabriel Cooney’s Photograph of Students in Snow

  • Author By Maisie Stewart '25
  • Categories: 20th Century, Frost Library Archives, North America, Photograph, Snow, Weather and Amherst, Weather and People
A man and woman laughing and playfully throwing snowballs at each other under a snow-covered tree in a snowy scene.

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.

Frank Ward’s Photograph of Students in Snow

  • Author By Dominic Udoakang '25
  • Categories: 20th Century, Frost Library Archives, North America, Photograph, Snow, Weather and Amherst, Weather and People
Three female and one male Amherst College students enjoy a sled ride in the fresh snow on a clear, brisk day atop Memorial Hill.

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.
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