Pissarro Panel Discussion with Sadie Arft and Alex Chipkin
Join us for a panel discussion about our upcoming exhibition, Impressionism Across Generations: The Pissarro Family Legacy.
Author and scholar Alex Chipkin returns to Newfields to share her technical research from Paintings by the Pissarro Family: A Technical Catalogue, while Newfields Curatorial Assistant, Sadie Arft offers insight into the historical framework and curatorial approach guiding the new exhibition. This discussion will be moderated by Newfields Curator of European Art, Kenneth Brummel.
Support provided by the Myrtie Shumacker Lecture Fund.
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Speaker Bios
Sadie Arft
Sadie Arft is the Curatorial Assistant for European Art and Works on Paper at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. Prior to joining the IMA, she worked at the Spencer Museum of Art and the Cedarburg Art Museum and taught art history courses at the University of Kansas and Kansas City Art Institute. Her previous exhibitions include Käthe Kollwitz: Visions of Solidarity and Resilience (2025-2026), which highlighted the IMA’s collection of prints by the German artist. Sadie received her MA in Art History from the University of Kansas and is currently completing her PhD at the same institution.
Alex Chipkin
Alex Chipkin is a private paintings conservator based in New York City. She received her degree in the Conservation of Easel Paintings from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2020. Alex has worked in both private studios and museum labs in England, the United States and Italy. Most recently she completed a fellowship at the Harvard Art Museum where she trained in the specialization of paintings on panel. Her international perspective and interdisciplinary approach give her a nuanced understanding of artworks, which guides her research and implementation of treatment strategies.
Impressionism Across Generations: The Pissarro Family Legacy
Impressionism Across Generations: The Pissarro Family Legacy brings together masterworks from the Pissarro family drawn from the IMA’s permanent collection, presented together for the first time. Featuring paintings by Camille Pissarro and his sons Lucien and Georges, the exhibition reveals how one family’s bold experimentation with paint brushwork and color helped shape the course of modern art. Spanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the works offer a vivid introduction to major artistic movements—from Impressionism to Neo-Impressionism—while demonstrating the powerful role of family, mentorship, and collaboration in artistic innovation.
Image credit:
Lucien Pissarro (French, 1863–1944), Interior of the Studio, 1887, oil on canvas, 25-1/4 x 31-1/2 in. (canvas); 31-1/16 x 37-3/8 x 3 in. (framed/Optium). Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Gift in memory of Robert S. Ashby by his family and friends, 1995.100.
