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"Claus Hoie’s Greengrocer Series: Bountiful Harvest"
at The Bridgehampton Museum
"Claus Hoie’s Greengrocer Series: Bountiful Harvest," is an exhibition of bold and colorful fruit & vegetable-inspired paintings by Claus Hoie (b. Stavanger, Norway, 1911 - d. East Hampton, NY, 2007) and will be open at The Bridgehampton Museum from June 6 through October 15. The Bridgehampton Museum is open Monday through Friday, 10 - 3 and Saturday by appointment.
The Opening Reception is Friday, June 6, 5 – 7 pm.
Watercolors in the exhibition span the last three decades of the artist's life. A number have been shown in museums and galleries in New York and elsewhere, but many are on view for the first time.
Intellectual curiosity, imagination, and daily walks observing natural phenomena all served as motivation for Hoie's fruit & vegetable themes. The exhibition calls attention to his use of humor and fantasy, and to his inventive use of calligraphic qualities to emphasize traditional species’ names derived from 18th and 19th century scientific investigations. His skill at exploring various tonalities and degrees of transparency is evident throughout.
Claus Hoie studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and at Pratt Institute. There have been more than twenty solo exhibitions of his watercolors in museums and galleries in the United States and in Europe. A full career retrospective was organized by the Guild Hall Museum in 2004 and his work is represented in many museum and private collections.
The paintings in this exhibition have been donated to the permanent collections of The Bridgehampton Museum by the Helen and Claus Hoie Charitable Foundation.
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