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Category: Wind

George Cruikshank’s A Tailor in a High Wind

  • Author By Ava Zielinski '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Europe, Mead Art Museum, Print, Weather and Culture, Weather and People, Wind
A stylized depiction of a man holding an infant, facing into a strong wind, with their garments—including his wig—soaring into the air. The expressions on their faces show shock and horror.

George Rickey’s Two Lines Oblique Down

  • Author By Tim Souza '26
  • Categories: 20th Century, Mead Art Museum, North America, Sculpture, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Movement, Wind
A wide view of a tall, kinetic sculpture, a Y shaped thin metal post with two thin swinging antennas at the ends installed on a grassy courtyard.

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.

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.

Emily Dickinson’s Wind Harp

  • Author By Vita Arce '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Emily Dickinson Museum, Musical Instrument, North America, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Movement, Wind
A rectangular stringed harp, the size of a computer keyboard. There is a floral design carved beneath the strings.

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