Nowadays Camille Pissarro is not the most famous of the Impressionists but, as the only painter to have exhibited at all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions in Paris, he has a claim to be the glue that held the group together. This exhibition of 100 works by the artist opened at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam in June and is now travelling to Denver Art Museum; it is the first major Pissarro show in the United States for more than 40 years (26 October–8 February 2026). Although he spent most of his adult life in Europe, mingling with Courbet, Monet and others in the Impressionist group, Pissarro was born on the island of St Thomas – not far from American shores – and painted beguiling views of the Caribbean, as well as the idyllic French landscapes for which he is best known. Later in his career he also painted a number of remarkable urban scenes, particularly in London, and many of his paintings and drawings, which depict dignified farm labourers and the desperate or exploited urban poor, are shot through with his own anti-capitalistic convictions.
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