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John Constable's cloud obsession on display at the Yale Center for British Art.
Why was the painter John Constable so obsessed with clouds? During the summers of 1821 and 1822, while living at Hampstead, the English painter John Constable set up his easel at various elevated locales on the Heath and painted oil sketches of clouds, as many as 50 during the summer of 1822 alone, with notations on the back concerning such atmospheric conditions as the time of day and the direction and speed of the wind.
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