Featuring spectacular, luminous landscapes and richly evocative scenes of simple rural life, Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape celebrates the earliest and most revolutionary stage of the painter's career. The exhibition focuses upon the crucial decade of 1864 to 1874, when Pissarro began to boldly transform his traditional landscapes into more loosely painted and colorful images of the natural world.

Among the first masterpieces of the Impressionist movement, these brilliantly innovative paintings influenced an entire generation of artists, including Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin. Ranging from images of hills and skies painted in intensely saturated blues and greens to subtle depictions of snowy streets, these canvases establish and confirm Pissarro's contribution to the origins of Impressionism.

Bringing together thirty-nine of the artist's most striking works, drawn from major international museums and private collections, this exhibition reveals Pissarro's place not only among the most enduring and important artists of the entire Impressionist movement, but as a painter of revolutionary power and vision.

This lavishly illustrated publucation illuminates Camille Pissarros remarkable transformation from a Barbizon-style landscape painter to one of the leaders of the emerging Impressionist movement. This is the first major examination of the revolutionary landscape paintings Pissarro created between 1864 and 1874. During this pivotal decade in the artists career, Pissarro produced his most beautiful and innovative canvases and his experimental techniques and vision laid the groundwork for an entire generation of painters.

This publication brings together approximately 50 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.Along with full-color reproductions and in-depth catalogue entries on the paintings are essays on the development of Pissarro's painting style from 1864 to 1874, and on the influence of place in his workacknowledging his formative years in St. Thomas and Venezuela as well as his fascination with the countryside surrounding Paris.

Technical studies of several of the artist's paintings from the 1860s reveal new insights into the artists creative process.This volume accompanies an exhibition organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art. It will travel to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Tennessee and the Milwaukee Museum of Art in 2007.