CAMILLE PISSARRO: IMPRESSIONS OF CITY AND COUNTRY

A founding member of the Impressionists and a master of depicting urban life and rural settings, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was the only artist to show his paintings in all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions from 1874 to 1886, and the only Impressionist who was Jewish. Pissarro is celebrated for his Impressionist landscapes painted in and around the villages of the French countryside surrounding Paris.

He also painted more cityscapes than any other Impressionist artist. Pissarro’s continual artistic experimentation revolutionized late-19th-century art. The artist espoused an anti-bourgeois, anarchist ideology and was passionate about the plight of the working classes. Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country includes nearly 50 paintings and works on paper – drawn primarily from New York City-area private collections – many of which have rarely been on public view.

The exhibition examines how the painter’s artistic theories and social convictions influenced his Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist work.