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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.

Rookwood Pottery’s Earthenware Pitcher

  • Author By Elle Mader
  • Categories: 19th Century, Climate, Mead Art Museum, North America, Sculpture, Weather and Nature, Weather and Time
Small pitcher with a handle and glazed in orange and green ombre. Decorated with two painted hawthorne flowers.

Gabriel Cooney’s Photograph of the Campus in Snow

  • Author By Tyson Luna '25
  • Categories: 20th Century, Frost Library Archives, North America, Photograph, Snow, Weather and Amherst, Weather and the Built Environment
Fresh snow covers the buildings of the Amherst athletic center, as seen from Memorial Hill.

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.

Geoffrey Hendricks’s Sky Boots

  • Author By Violet Glickman '25
  • Categories: 20th Century, Clouds, Mead Art Museum, North America, Sculpture, Weather and People
A sculpture of creased, worn, lace-up men’s work boots, covered entirely in a painted bright blue sky with white clouds.

Triassic Petrified Wood Specimen

  • Author By Natalie Fu '27
  • Categories: Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Prehistory, Specimen, Weather and Nature, Weather and Time
Image of petrified wood taken from above highlighting the colorful cross-section.

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

Frances Chickering’s Cloud Crystals

  • Author By Vivi Caruso '27
  • Categories: 19th Century, Book, Frost Library Archives, North America, Snow, Weather and Nature, Weather and Science
Book cover, brown with the title "Cloud Crystals A Snow Flake Album" in gold lettering

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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