Edward Hopper painting now on display at the Appleton

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Posted April 1, 2022 | By Ocala Gazette Staff

On March 23, the College of Central Florida’s Appleton Museum of Art announced the display of its most recent acquisition, “Ships” (1898), by legendary American artist Edward Hopper.

The painting, on display in the second-floor Maritime Gallery through the end of the year, is “extraordinary,” according to the CF press release, due to the fact that Hopper painted “Ships” when he was only 16 years old. The work depicts a scene of both sailing and coal-fired ships on the water and is one of the artist’s earliest works.

Hopper, probably best known for his landmark painting “Nighthawks” (1942), was born in 1882 into an educated, middle-class family in Nyack, New York. Hopper’s career took off in the 1930s, while creating some of his most renowned work in the 1940s.

Although his popularity as an artist declined somewhat with the rise of the Abstract Impressionists in the second half of the Twentieth Century, Hopper continued to have retrospectives at the world’s most prestigious museums up until his death in 1967 at the age of 84.

The Appleton Museum, Artspace and store are open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. A CF campus, the Appleton is located at 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, east of downtown on S.R. 40 (exit 352 east off I-75 or exit 268 west off I-95). Parking is free.

For more information, call (352) 291-4455 or visit AppletonMuseum.org.