Late april

CAMILLE PISSARO’S LANDSCAPES ON VIEW AT MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM JUNE 9

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MILWAUKEE, WIS. — The Milwaukee Art Museum will present “Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape” on view June 9–September 9.

This exhibition will explore the transformation of Camille Pissarro’s landscape paintings over the course of an important decade in his career, from 1864 to 1874. During this time, he moved from being a student of the Barbizon School to becoming one of the leaders of the emerging Impressionist movement. This critical period of his evolution as an artist laid the ground work for an entire generation of painters, many of whom were influenced by his experimental techniques and vision.

The exhibition will include approximately 50 paintings, ranging from his Salon compositions from the 1860s to a selection of his entries for the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. Through these canvases, visitors will be able to see the development of Pissarro’s painting technique, palette and subject matter during a brief, yet intense, period of his long and fruitful career. An exhibition catalog will be available.

The exhibition is organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art and curated by Kathy Rothkopf, curator of painting and sculpture. The exhibition is coordinated at the Milwaukee Art Museum by Laurie Winters, curator of earlier European art.

The museum is at 700 North Art Museum Drive. For information, 414-224-3200 or www.mam.org.