Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape - Softcover

Katherine Rothkopf

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856676322 ISBN 13: 9780856676321

Publisher: The Baltimore Museum of Art / Philip Wilson, 2006

Synopsis

This lavishly illustrated book illuminates Camille Pissarro's remarkable transformation from a Barbizon-style landscape painter to one of the leaders of the emerging Impressionist movement. This is the first book to examine the revolutionary landscape paintings Pissarro created between 1864 and 1874. During this pivotal decade in the artist's career, Pissarro produced his most beautiful and innovative canvases and his experimental techniques and vision laid the groundwork for an entire generation of painters. The catalogue brings together approximately fifty of these exquisite paintings, from key works included in the Salon exhibitions of the 1860s to a powerful selection of landscapes seen in the first Impressionist show of 1874. Many of these paintings are drawn from major museums around the world and rarely shown private collections.

About this title

About the Author

Katherine Rothkopf, Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Baltimore Museum of Art, is a graduate of the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art (M.A., 1991) and Oberlin College (B.A., Art History, 1987). Christopher Hamilton Lloyd, former Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures (England), contributes an essay to the catalogue.

Review

"The catalogue is a visual treat, as one luscious although not predictably impressionistic landscape after another fills its pages.  It is also a very profound work of scholarship...The first catalogue to look so closely at Pissarro’s pre-impressionistic years, his experimental techniques during this time, and the profound impact place had on his painting of landscapes, it is recommended for academic, public, and special libraries supporting an art history collecting program."  --Jennifer H Pollack, Library Journal "Well-produced and very reasonably priced...Highly recommended." --J. Weidman, Choice

Edition details

• Publisher: The Baltimore Museum of Art / Philip Wilson
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856676322
• ISBN 13: 9780856676321
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216