Mead Art Museum on Instagram: "The Mead celebrates the Winter Solstice with two paintings from our collection: Henry Hobart Nichols’ “The Brook in Winter” (n.r.) and John Henry Twachtman’s “Winter Silence” (1890-1900). Nichols, a landscape painter, primarily depicted winter scenes, “exploring,” according to his grandniece, “the nuances of light on snow.” Twachtman, an American Impressionist, similarly gravitated towards winter, loving “that feeling of quiet and all nature is hushed to…