Massachusetts Museums in Springfield

💕Nestled in the town of Springfield, just a 90-minute drive west of Boston, is a cluster of small but comprehensive museums worth exploring. 💕Georage Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum and Michele Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Art 💕These intimate galleries feature an impressive collection of Impressionist works by Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Pissarro. The American wing showcases pieces by Sargent and O’Keeffe. There’s a contemporary reimagining of the portrait of Qiu Jin, a historical figure written about by Lu Xun, by American artists. The museum also boasts one of the largest collections of cloisonné outside Asia. Currently, there’s a special exhibition featuring Tiffany Studio works. 💕The Smith Art Museum’s exhibit, “A Glimpse of America’s Gilded Age,” houses an array of collections from Egypt, Greece, Europe, Japan, and China. The aesthetic influence of the “nouveaux riches” of the Gilded Age on us today raises the question: who is guiding the taste of these “newly wealthy” individuals? #MuseumVisits #MustSeeMuseums #BostonSurroundings #Impressionism #GildedAge