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Dennis Miller Bunker (1861-1890) 
Professions: Painter
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DENNIS MILLER BUNKER 1861-1890 THE STATION Measurements: 14.25in. by 18.25in. Alternate Measurements: (36.2 by 46.4 cm) signed To Tarbell/D.M. Bunker, l.r. oil on canvas Painted circa 1886-89. Provenance: Edmund C. Tarbell (gift from the artist) Mary
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DENNIS MILLER BUNKER (AMERICAN 1861-1890). BRETON HARBOR, LARMOR.
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Dennis Miller Bunker (American, 1861-1890)
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DENNIS MILLER BUNKER (1861-1890)Old Hulkssigned with initials D.B., l.r. -
Biography: Bunker
(b New York, 6 Nov 1861; d Boston, MA, 28 Dec 1890). American painter. He was a founder-member of the ‘Boston school’ of painters and was the first artist to bring the Impressionist style to New England. From c . 1878 to 1881 he studied with William Merritt Chase, and from 1881 he studied in Paris with Jean-Léon Gérôme, returning to America in the autumn of 1885 to teach at the Cowles Art School in Boston. Although he held this post for only five years, he influenced many Bostonians (among them Isabella Stewart Gardner, founder of the Gardner Museum in Boston) to be more open to European ideas in art. After spending the summer of 1888 at Calcott, Salop, England, painting plein-air landscapes with John Singer Sargent, who was working closely with Claude Monet at the time, he altered his style, his colours becoming brighter and his brushwork looser. However, he always maintained the careful drawing he had learnt from Gérôme. Bunker’s best-known works date from the last year or two of his life, such as Jessica (1890; Boston, MA, Mus. F.A.) and the Roadside Cottage: Medfield (1890; Duxbury, MA, A. Complex Mus.). Bunker, whom Sargent once called the most gifted young American, died at 29 of influenza, just a few years after his first solo exhibition.
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