Camille Pissarro
France, 1830-1903 La Charrue (The Plow), 1901
Lithograph
Museum purchase, through the K.U. Endowment Association, 1957.0067
Pissarro was interested in a variety of radical schools of thought, including anarchism and communism, and belonged to the Club de l’art social [Socially-aware Art Club]. This group has been characterized as a politically heterogeneous group, whose members had in common an anti-conservative point of view. Like the work by Constantin Meunier exhibited here, this print was published by the anarchist journal, Les Temps nouveaux [New Times], in the form of a frontispiece for a literary supplement in 1901.
