The Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery is currently exhibiting Midwestern Visions of Impressionism: 1890-1930. The exhibit runs through OCt. 12.

Midwestern Visions of Impressionism takes a fresh look at the American Impressionism movement through the paintings of 31 artists born or raised in the Midwest and working between 1890 and 1930. In addition to bringing attention to the often overlooked talent of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, the exhibit explores where these artists fit within the larger context of American Impressionism and how their regions informed their paintings.

Exhibition curator is Christine Fowler Shearer. She is the executive director of the Massillon Museum.

"In America, Impressionism offered a counterpoint to the academic art traditions and the opportunity to establish a new artistic voice for Americans. Midwestern landscape painters were able to embrace their native settings through the Impressionistic technique," Shearer says.

The Riffe Gallery is located in the Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts, 77 S. High St.

Hours are Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.

Visit www.riffegallery.org or call 614-644-9624 for more information.

The exhibition includes paintings from the following artists:

John Ottis Adams, George Adomeit, George Ames Aldrich, May Ames, Otto Bacher, L. Carence Ball, Karl Albert Buehr, V.J. Cariani, William Clusmann, Frank Virgil Dudley, Maude Eggemeyer, William J. Forsyth, Alexis Jean Fournier, Marie Goth, Frederick Gottwald, Carl Graf, Louis Oscar (L.O.) Griffith, Lucie Hartrath, Emil Jacques, Karl Kappes, Lewis Henry Meakin, Pauline Palmer, Louis Ritman, Ada Walter Shulz, Adolph Shulz, Otto Stark, Theodore Clement (T.C.) Steele, John Henry Twachtman, Will Vawter, Abel Warshawsky and Edward K. Williams.