Here are works by another of my favorite Jewish artists, Camille Pissarro. Pissarro was born in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas (now part of the U.S. Virgin Islands), in 1830. He spent some time in Venezuela, then went to France in 1855. He studied and worked in Paris until 1870 when the Franco-Prussian War forced him to flee to England. When he returned a year later, his discovered that Prussian soldiers had destroyed much of his early work. He began a series of new and interesting paintings of French rural and urban life that eventually earned for him the title "Father of Impressionism." He was a fatherly figure who acted as mentor to such well-regarded painters as Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, and Edgar Degas. Pissarro died in 1903. Though he sold few paintings in his lifetime, his works now sell in the U.S. for several million dollars each.
