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Category: Weather and People

The essays in this section consider how people perceive and interact with weather. From a military guidebook about classifying clouds to a satirical cartoon of a windswept tailor, these objects reveal weather as a pervasive and consequential force in human lives, as well as a perennial subject of creative expression.

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.
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