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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.

Thomas Cole’s The Present

  • Author By Emma Curley '28
  • Categories: 19th Century, Mead Art Museum, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Culture, Weather and Time
Ruins of a medieval castle are illuminated by sunset. A shepherd with his flock stands in the sun surveys the ruin

Thomas Cole’s The Past

  • Author By Carlin Chazen '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Mead Art Museum, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Culture, Weather and Time
A cheerful summers day viewed from the trees on high, looking down upon a castle yard where a crowd watches a joust

Will Sillin’s Painting of the Connecticut River Valley

  • Author By Nico Berger '27
  • Categories: 21st Century, Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
A wide view of a rocky prehistoric lakeside with sparse vegetation and tiny grazing dinosaurs under a cloudy sky

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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