The Denver Art Museum has announced it will present the first U.S. retrospective of the "first impressionist" in Fall 2025, a project to be co-curated by Pitt alum Clarisse Fava-Piz, Associate Curator of European and American Art before 1900 at the Museum.
The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism traces four decades of Pissarro’s career, illustrating the evolution of his practice from his early years in the Caribbean and South America, to his time in Paris at the dawn of the Impressionist movement, to his family life in Éragny, and his later years depicting the cities and harbors of northern France.
“Pissarro was a true architect of the impressionist movement. His colleague and friend Cezanne called him ‘the first impressionist.’ The only artist to present work at all eight Impressionist exhibitions in Paris, Pissarro was a defining figure whose oeuvre captured a changing society in the throes of industrialization, straddling the rural and urban in his depictions of daily life,” Fava-Piz explains in the museum's announcement of the project.
Read more about the exhibition at the Denver Art Museum press release here.
