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Category: Weather and Destruction

The essays in this section interrogate weather as a destructive force, contributing to natural and human-wrought disasters. From a sublime painting to contemporary photographs of Atlantic puffins, these objects present destructive weather as at once uncontrollable and a direct result of human (in)action.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Dresden Codex Facsimile

  • Author By Ellerman Mateo Mateo '25
  • Categories: 11th Century, Book, Central America, Climate, Frost Library Archives, Rain, Storm, Weather and Culture, Weather and Destruction
Two masked figures convene around a pedestal, one holding a headless bird

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