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Category: Europe

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.

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.

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.

Walter Williams’s Girl with Butterflies

  • Author By Sarah Hasegawa-Howard '25
  • Categories: 20th Century, Europe, Mead Art Museum, North America, Print, Weather and Nature, Weather and People, Wind
A woodcut print of a young black girl surrounded by butterflies and flowers in a meadow. It is a warm and breezy spring day.

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