About the show:
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903) is best known today as an Impressionist painter of landscapes. That's not all he did and certainly not how he got started in art, however. In fact, Pissarro was a founder of Impressionism -- a movement he helped develop going into his fourth decade as an artist and fifth decade of life.
Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape consists of 49 paintings the artist created between 1864 and 1874. Arranged chronologically, they illustrate Pissarro's evolution from an academically-trained Salon exhibitor associated with the Barbizon School, to a full-fledged "radical" who burst onto the scene with his compatriots in the First Impressionist Exhibition of 1874. It is an exciting artistic journey, and a privilege to witness.
Scheduled Venues
The Baltimore Museum of Art: February 11-May 13, 2007
Milwaukee Art Museum: June 9-September 9, 2007
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art: October 7, 2007-January 6, 2008