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Category: Weather and Nature

The essays in this section probe how weather relates to other aspects of the natural world, from butterflies to mountains. The varied objects discussed here—including a vase, paintings, photographs, and artists’ books—evince the broader ecological web in which weather is entangled, with significant consequences in our contemporary moment of climate crisis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

William Henry Jackson’s Photochroms

  • Author By Ellis Benitez '28
  • Categories: 19th Century, 20th Century, Clouds, Frost Library Archives, North America, Photograph, Sun, Weather and Nature

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