Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) is best known as one of the founders of the Impressionist movement. Although he received his artistic training in Paris, a seven-month stay in London, beginning in December of 1870, had a lasting impact on his artistic development. Fleeing Paris during the upheavals of the Franco-Prussian War, Pissarro settled in the South London suburb of Norwood. From there, he explored his new environs, reveling in the city's galleries and museums, where he admired the works of John Constable and J. M. W. Turner. 
Pissarro produced a number of paintings inspired by his surroundings, including Near Sydenham Hill, which depicts a view of Norwood bordered by fields and flanked by trees. The loose brushstrokes and atmospheric effects of this painting are early indicators of the Impressionist style that Pissarro would pursue in the years after his return to France. Kathleen Adler analyzes this pivotal work in detail and uses it as a launching point for a larger discussion of the artist's life, circumstances, and artistic trajectory.

A Time and a Place: "Near Sydenham Hill" by Camille Pissarro (Kimbell Masterpiece Series)

Arts & Photography

Adler, Kathleen

History & Criticism

Kimbell Art Museum

Camille Pissarro: A biography

Batsford

An illustrated book which reveals the work of "unknown" French Impressionists who as much as the "known" painters (Monet, Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley) contributed to the style and imagery of French Impressionism. The collection of painters were all very different in character: Caillebotte, an enigmatic figure who was a wealthy patron of his contemporaries as well as a painter in his own right; Guillaumin and Vignon, friends of Pissarro who shared his vision of the misty and fertile landscape; Forain and de Nittis, who too painted the Paris demi-monde; Lepic, the gentleman jockey and greyhound fancier and Zandomeneghi, the Italian army deserter. The author also wrote "Manet" and was co-author of "Berthe Morisot".

Unknown Impressionists

Harpercollins

A biography of a leading figure in the Impressionist movement, Berthe Morisot (1841-95), who as a woman painter broke free of the restrictions of era and gender.

Berthe Morisot

Garb, Tamar

Individual Artists

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.

Gauguin: Colour Library

Bowness, Alan

Phaidon Press

Berthe Morisot was the leading woman impressionist. This book considers her work in the context of the artistic debates of the time and discusses the extent to which Morisot participated in these.

Shows paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings by Morisot, briefly traces her life, and assesses her place in modern art

Cornell Univ Pr

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.

Renoir

GAUNT, WILLIAM

Watson-Guptill Pubns

Traces the life and career of the French impressionist, examines his major paintings, and discusses changing critical opinions regarding his work

Manet

Salem House Pub.

Ana Maria Pacheco: In the National Gallery

Wiggins, Colin

Yale University Press

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A Time and a Place: "Near Sydenham Hill" by Camille Pissarro (Kimbell Masterpiece Series)

Camille Pissarro: A biography

Unknown Impressionists

Berthe Morisot

Gauguin: Colour Library

Berthe Morisot

Berthe Morisot

Renoir

Manet

Ana Maria Pacheco: In the National Gallery