Claus Hoie's Greengrocer Series: "Bountiful Harvest" at The Bridgehampton Museum

"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 isopen 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.