{
 "schema": "nephos.method.v1",
 "slug": "kent-winter-monhegan-1907",
 "title": "Rockwell Kent, Winter, Monhegan Island (1907), Met 17.48.2",
 "urls": [
  "/studies/kent-winter-monhegan-1907"
 ],
 "written": {
  "summary": "The picture is signed 1907 and was shown in April that year. January–March is a calendar comparison before the exhibition, not a documented painting session. The painted day and manner of execution remain unknown.",
  "items": [
   {
    "quote": "Signed: Rockwell Kent 1907.",
    "source": "Bryson Burroughs, Catalogue of Paintings, Met, sixth edition (1922)",
    "url": "https://archive.org/download/catalogueofpaint00metr_2/catalogueofpaint00metr_2_djvu.txt"
   },
   {
    "quote": "The exhibition opened April 1, 1907",
    "source": "New Britain Museum of American Art, Kent / Toilers of the Sea",
    "url": "https://ink.nbmaa.org/people/875/rockwell-kent/objects?filter=classifications%3AOil+Painting"
   }
  ]
 },
 "records": [
  {
   "name": "Portland daily snow depth, NOAA GHCN-Daily",
   "url": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/USC00176902.dly",
   "detail": "76.1 km from the Monhegan light-station reference point. All 90 daily entries survive in the selected 1907 window; 36 complete windows qualify in the 1893–1940 archive."
  },
  {
   "name": "The Met’s 1922 catalogue",
   "url": "https://archive.org/download/catalogueofpaint00metr_2/page/n191_w1600.jpg",
   "detail": "Page 162 describes snow-covered ground, late-afternoon light and coloured shadows; these are descriptions of paint, not readings from an instrument."
  },
  {
   "name": "Kent’s Wilderness, published 1920",
   "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43284/43284-h/43284-h.htm#Page_85",
   "detail": "The entry for 16 November 1918 remembers his first Monhegan winter. It is retrospective and does not identify this picture’s weather."
  }
 ],
 "gaps": [
  "No document examined fixes the depicted scene to a day or establishes outdoor versus studio execution.",
  "No verified daily Monhegan snow-depth or sky record has been obtained. Portland is a separate mainland station.",
  "No open reproduction of this object was verified; the painting is linked at the Met."
 ],
 "tests": [
  {
   "claim": "Does the snowy setting have support in the regional record?",
   "result": "Portland recorded measurable snow on the ground on 86 of 90 days in January–March 1907. Persistent regional snow provides context for Kent’s snowy view; it cannot date the scene or measure snow on Monhegan."
  },
  {
   "claim": "Was snow cover persistent at Portland?",
   "result": "The count ranks 3 of 36 accepted January–March windows. Trace snow is separate; missing and presumed-zero readings exclude a year. This is a rank within the archive, not a homogenized climate series."
  },
  {
   "claim": "Can the record establish what Kent changed?",
   "result": "No. The catalogue describes his arrangement of light and shadow, but no dated source view establishes that he added snow, altered the sky or recorded one particular afternoon."
  }
 ],
 "finding": "Portland recorded measurable snow on the ground on 86 of 90 days in January–March 1907. Persistent regional snow provides context for Kent’s snowy view; it cannot date the scene or measure snow on Monhegan.",
 "verdicts": [
  {
   "claim": "Persistent snow as regional context",
   "verdict": "Partially agrees",
   "reason": "Measured at Portland; no local validation of the island scene."
  },
  {
   "claim": "The depicted day and any alteration of its weather",
   "verdict": "Unknown",
   "reason": "Neither a dated source view nor a local observation has been established."
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "The signed year dates the object, not each observation behind it.",
  "Earlier winters could inform it.",
  "Snow depth is not snowfall, sea ice or air temperature.",
  "Mainland exposure, station changes and the missing local record limit the comparison.",
  "No modern normal or reanalysis is substituted."
 ]
}