Van Der Plas Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition of Dutch Artists celebrating the historic voyage of Henry Hudson.

“On his now legendary third voyage, under the auspices of the wealthy Dutch East India Company, Captain Hudson, set sail unceremoniously from Amsterdam with a crew of no more than twenty Dutch- and Englishmen in the decidedly cramped, triple-masted vessel, the Half Moon (Halve Maen in Dutch), on April 4, 1609. It has been suggested that the inferior ship was an expression of the wariness of Hudson's new sponsors, who thought he was overpaying the crew. The Dutch and English were archrivals at this time.

Their suspicions were well founded, for Captain Hudson again proved unmanageable. This time. when he encountered ferocious weather near Norway, the ambitious Hudson, despite having received instructions to search only for a northeasterly route, instead of returning to port, made a three thousand mile detour in search of warmer weather and the passage he was convinced he'd find along the northeast coast of America. He never found it. But he did come upon "a very good harbor for all windes," a discovery that gave rise to the founding of Nieuw Amsterdam and, ultimately, New York.

The exhibition features a monoprint series of works by Hab van den Wijngaard created just for this celebration, along with works by other major Dutch contemporary artists, Arthur Klein, Jaco Kranendonk, Laan Irodjojo,

Livia Dencher and Marjori Lutter.

The opening day celebration will be on Friday, September 4 at 6PM.

September 4 – October 31, 2009