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Indepth Arts News:
"IMPRESSIONISM TO THE PRESENT: CAMILLE PISSARRO AND HIS DESCENDANTS"
2000-01-29 until 2000-04-30
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale, FL,
USA United States of America
The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale will begin the new century with the only exhibition of work by
Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and four generations of his heirs to be seen in the United
States. Organized by the Museum of Art, Impressionism to the Present: Camille Pissarro and His
Descendants will open at the Museum on January 29, 2000 and run through April 30, 2000. The
exhibition is part of the two-year Immerse Yourself in Celebration millennium campaign
organized by the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitor's Bureau and area arts and
entertainment organizations.
The Pissarro exhibition will feature 156 works including significant pieces by Camille Pissarro,
known as the Father of Impressionism, and works created by his sons, grandchildren and
great-granddaughter. Museum visitors will have a rare opportunity to view and understand more
completely the enduring Impressionist tradition, as revealed in the diversity of talents and styles
of the Pissarro family.
In 1998, the Japanese Association of Art Museums organized a six-month touring exhibition,
Camille Pissarro and The Pissarro Family, planned and curated by
Pissarro family specialist David S. Stern and Impressionist and 20th
century art consultant Talma Zakai-Kanner. The five-city tour was
an enormous success, attracting approximately 400,000 visitors.
The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale has enlisted the assistance
and expertise of Stern and Zakai-Kanner to create a North American
venue for a variation of that Pissarro exhibition. Building on their
experiences in Japan, the two curators have increased the scope
and reach of their original concept. For the Fort Lauderdale
installation and catalogue, a strong focus will be placed on the work
of Lucien Pissarro, particularly on his early Pointillist and Post-Impressionist work.
This exhibition is a major collaborative effort, involving loans from museums around the world and
from private collectors. Participants include the Musée d'Orsay, Musée des Beaux-Arts (Reims
and Valenciennes), the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University, Tate Gallery, Tel Aviv Museum,
Israel Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Seattle Museum of Art,
Flint Institute of Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
It is an extraordinary honor to host an international exhibition of this caliber here in South
Florida. It signifies a new future for the Museum as we embark on our mission to appeal to a
range of audiences hungry to experience art that at one time they could see outside South
Florida only said Kathleen Harleman, Director and CEO of the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale.
She added that future millennium celebration exhibitions include the work of Abstract
Expressionist Willem de Kooning: In Process (March26-July 10, 2000) and Palace of Gold and
Light:Treasures from the Topkapi, Istanbul (October 15, 2000-February 28, 2001.)
A fully illustrated color catalogue will accompany the exhibition. It will feature an introduction by
Camille Pissarro scholar Christopher Lloyd (Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures,) an essay by
Independent Scholar and International Museum Consultant Richard R.Brettell, and an additional
essay by leading Lucien Pissarro expert Anne Thorold addressing the special working
relationship that existed between Camille and his son Lucien.
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