The Lord God Made It All

Part 8 Clouds in Art

Well, I suppose it would only be a matter of time before I got here.  Okay, I’ll admit it, I’m hopeless, but after all, I am an artist, so naturally I would be interested in how one of my favorite subjects is depicted in art.  Here are some of my favorites.

This picture is called After the Storm by L. Hurt. These clouds appear to be low stratus.

This painting is titled Brittany Girl by Daniel Ridgeway Knight. My guess here is that these are fair-weather or swelling cumulus – the effect is light and airy.

Here is a splendid picture of a young cumulonimbus at sunset by F.E. Churchill, one of the Hudson River Valley painters.

This painting, called Majestic Gathering by Edwin Henry Landseer, shows a thick ground fog.

Also by the same artist, this painting shows low stratus and ground fog.  It is titled Monarch of the Glen.

A stormy scene, this is most obviously on the underside of a cumulonimbus cloud.  This is Rembrant’s depiction of the storm on the Sea of Galilee.

Here we have swelling cumulus to cumulus congestus and alto stratus in this painting, called The Harvest, by Robert Zund.

This picture (The Wanderer Above the Sea Fog by Casper David Friedrich) is a combination of ground fog and what appears to be altostratocumulus.

The Oxbow by Thomas Cole. This beautiful painting is one of my all time favorites.  It shows a chain of cumulonimbus clouds and what I like about it is that it gives the close up perspective in the foreground, and the distant perspective in the background.  One gets the idea of how huge these clouds actually are.

So which one is your favorite?