March 12, 2004

Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring in American Culture

By MICHAEL KAMMEN

Some 25 years ago I began to be intrigued by depictions of the four seasons. They just kept surfacing hither and yon, in museums and public spaces -- all four seasons in suites, not just single pictures with titles like "Summer Haying" or "Winter Landscape." Gradually, my awareness expanded to sculpture, architectural ornaments, and the decorative arts -- works encountered in venues from galleries in Fort Worth, to venerable hotels de ville in Paris, to seasonal pavilions

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