Capturing the Immediate: Impressionism in the South: Paintings from the Permanent Collection

July 13th – December 29th || 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. || The Morris Museum of Art

This expansive exhibition includes figurative, still-life, and landscape paintings by many well-known and some previously undiscovered impressionist painters who worked in the South. Driven by the passionate interest of museum founders Sissie and Billy Morris, the museum has made impressionist painting an important focus of its collection since the start. More than three galleries are devoted to this groundbreaking exhibition. 

This exhibition demonstrates that artists in the South shared key concerns with their French counterparts, most notably a grounding in direct sensory and lived experience, as well as “the painting of modern life” that meant subjects could be observed in the artist’s own environment. An increasing number of southern painters who discovered impressionism found the combination of sensuous technique and native subject matter perfectly suited to southern sensibilities. 

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