'Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism Through the French Lens' now on view at Asheville Art Museum Leon-Augustin Lhermitte, The Babys Hour, 1983, oil on canvas, 26 × 31 ½ inches. Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA, Gift, Ferdinand Thun and Henry Janssen. ASHEVILLE, NC .- Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism through the French Lensdrawn mostly from the collection of the Reading Public Museum in Reading, PAexplores the path to Impressionism through the 19th century in France. The show examines the relationship between French Impressionism of the 1870s and 1880s and the American interpretation of the style in the decades that followed. The exhibition is on view in the Museums Appleby Foundation Exhibition Hall January 22 through April 19, 2021.