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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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