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Jackson museum explores American impressionism

Scott Pohl/WKAR

Say “impressionist art” and you’re likely to think of the Europeans like Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, and Cezanne. But a number of American artists fit in that category, too. In Jackson, the Ella Sharp Museum has opened an exhibition called “American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists’ Colony”. It’s on loan from the Reading Public Museum in Pennsylvania.Current State’s Scott Pohl visited the exhibition with MSU assistant professor of Art and Art History Laura Smith. Smith agrees that the Americans are less well known than their European counterparts. 

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