Claus Hoie, Watercolor Still life Painting Vegetables Claus Hoien Greengrocer Kitchen Series

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Delicate watercolor of vegetables. Japanese eggplant and radishes and a squash gourd.
Framed 18 X 20 image is 11 X … more Delicate watercolor of vegetables. Japanese eggplant and radishes and a squash gourd.
Framed 18 X 20 image is 11 X 13.5

Claus Hoie was a Norwegian-American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1911. His work was featured in exhibitions at the Long Island Museum and the Guild Hall Museum.
Claus Hoie was born in Stavanger, Norway, November 3, 1911. He lived for a few years in Oslo before emigrating to the United States at the age of thirteen, when he settled in Brooklyn, NY. He studied art at the Pratt Institute and at the Art Students League in New York. He spent time at sea (two Years), a heritage from his grandfather and father who were both ship’s captains. During World War II, Hoie served four years in the Army as a sergeant in a special Norwegian-American battalion of the mountain infantry (99th Infantry Battalion), whose mission was to assist in the liberation of Norway. His Battalion also landed on Normandy Beach five days after D-Day. After the war, he studied art at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. His wife, Helen, is also an artist.
Hoie worked as an independent artist creating mostly watercolors and graphics but also was a commercial artist. He has exhibited his watercolors and graphics at the American Watercolor Society between 1960 and 1994; Brooklyn Museum Watercolor Biennial, 1963; Museum of Watercolor Painting, Mexico City, Mexico, 1968 and 1989; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual, 1969; and the Childe Hassam Award Exhibition, National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1973. He has had numerous one-man shows in places such as the Norwegian-American Museum, Decorah, IA, 1976; Akershus Castle Museum in Oslo, Norway, 1982; South Street Seaport Museum, NY, 1992, Mystic Seaport Museum, 1994 and 1998; and, the Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, 1998. Hoie has also been the author of several articles about his work. He has written and illustrated a book, Whaler Helena of Sag Harbor in the South Pacific, 1843-1845 (1994). In addition, he provided some text and illustrations for a booklet entitled, "The Viking Battalion" by Audrey Wendland published in 1998.
He received numerous awards for his work including prizes awarded in 1985 and 1988 from the National Academy of Design, honors and medals from the American Watercolor Society spanning the years 1955 through 1988, an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1975, and an award from the Audubon Artists Annual Exhibition in 1990. He also received the Marine Environmental Wildlife Award from the Mystic Seaport Museum in 1998.
Hoie’s paintings and graphics are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Oklahoma Museum of Art, National Academy of Design, Norwegian-American Museum, University of Minnesota, and Brigham Young University. The works he exhibited at the Norwegian-American Museum eventually were acquired by Akershus Museum in Oslo, Norway. These watercolors focused on the training of mountain troops for the U.S. Army Special Forces unit of which he was a member during World War II. Hoie’s seafaring family origins inspired a long lifetime of painting sailing vessels, fish, whalers, and Moby-Dick, among other subjects. The idea of a “fantasia” (a mixture of forms and styles) fits the varied styles of Claus Hoie (1911-2007), who sometimes incorporated a variety of elements such as text from logbooks into his artworks.

Select Exhibitions
2013 Clinton Academy Museum; East Hampton, New York (solo)
2012–2013 Bridgehampton Museum; Bridgehampton, New York (solo)
2011 East Hampton Marine Museum; Amagansett, New York (solo)
2011 Nantucket Whaling Museum; Nantucket, Massachusetts (solo)
1967–2007 National Academy of Design Annuals; New York, New York
2004–2005 RETROSPECTIVE; Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York (solo)
2002 Mystic Seaport Museum International; Mystic, Connecticut
1998 Nordic Heritage Museum; Seattle, Washington (solo)
1984–1997 Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York (solo)
1992 South Street Seaport Museum; New York, New York (solo)
1991 Parrish Museum; Southampton, New York
1989 Mexico Museum of Watercolor; Mexico City
1984 Bernice Steinbaum Gallery; New York, New York “1+1=2”
1982 Guild Hall Museum; “Poets & Artists” East Hampton, New York
1980 Alex Rosenberg Gallery; New York, New York “Printmakers”
1980 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters; Watercolor USA Annuals, New York,
1978–1980 Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition “Artist’s Postcards”
1965 Royal Academy of London
1964 Brooklyn Museum Watercolor Biennial, Brooklyn, New York

Select Public Collections
Mystic Seaport Museum, Connecticut
Nantucket Whaling Museum, Massachusetts
National Academy of Design, New York
Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, Washington
Norfolk Museum, Virginia
Norwegian American Museum, Iowa
South Street Seaport Museum, New York
Akershus Museum, Oslo, Norway
Bridgehampton Museum, Bridgehampton, New York
Brigham Young University, Utah
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Butler Institute, Ohio
Clinton Academy Museum, East Hampton, New York
Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, New York
East Hampton Marine Museum, Amagansett, New York
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
Long Island Museum of American Art, Stony Brook less