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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.

Early Jurassic Slab with Raindrops

  • Author By Donovan Pitts '27
  • Categories: Beneski Museum of Natural History, North America, Prehistory, Rain, Specimen, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
A large, gray slab of rock features a mottled, undulating surface and a jagged edge.

Sarah Berman’s Rainy Street Scene

  • Author By Elizabeth Papalia '25
  • Categories: 20th Century, Mead Art Museum, North America, Painting, Rain, Weather and People, Weather and the Built Environment
Three women in brightly colored clothes and carrying umbrellas navigate a dark city street.

Edward Steichen’s The Flatiron

  • Author By Dulcie McGrath '28
  • Categories: 20th Century, Fog, Mead Art Museum, North America, Photograph, Rain, Weather and the Built Environment
A soft-focused, green toned photograph of the Flatiron building in Manhattan, NYC, at twilight. The view is foggy and blocked by a branch.

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

Satō Shintarō’s Shinkoiwa, Katsushika-ku (Snow)

  • Author By Harrison Lundy '25
  • Categories: 21st Century, Asia, Climate, Mead Art Museum, Photograph, Snow, Weather and Culture, Weather and the Built Environment
Dense three and four-story white and yellow buildings fill most of the image in an incongruous pattern, with snow-covered roofs. In the background, several bridges cross a river, and three skyscrapers dot the far skyline under a dark night sky.

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.
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