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Category: Painting

Will Sillin’s Connecticut River Valley Diorama

  • Author By Sofia Zavatone-Zeth '25
  • Categories: 21st Century, Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
Diorama of a group of long necked bipedal dinosaurs at the shore of a lake, set in a corner of a museum gallery and artificially lit.

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.

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.

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.

Thomas Cole’s The Present

  • Author By Emma Curley '28
  • Categories: 19th Century, Mead Art Museum, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Culture, Weather and Time
Ruins of a medieval castle are illuminated by sunset. A shepherd with his flock stands in the sun surveys the ruin

Thomas Cole’s The Past

  • Author By Carlin Chazen '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Mead Art Museum, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Culture, Weather and Time
A cheerful summers day viewed from the trees on high, looking down upon a castle yard where a crowd watches a joust

Will Sillin’s Painting of the Connecticut River Valley

  • Author By Nico Berger '27
  • Categories: 21st Century, Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
A wide view of a rocky prehistoric lakeside with sparse vegetation and tiny grazing dinosaurs under a cloudy sky

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