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Oct 13, 2024
Dennis Miller Bunker
(Am. 1861-1890)
On the Bank of the Oise, France, 1883
Oil on canvas, framed
Signed and dated l.l., Godel and Co. label, New Britain Museum of American Art label, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc. label and Davis and Long Company label on backing verso, Berry Hill stamps and Brooklyn Museum sticker on stretcher verso
26 1/2" x 36 1/2" actual, 37 3/8" x 47 1/4" framed
Literature:
J.I. Edwards, "Dennis Miller Bunker Rediscovered" in 19th Century Magazine, Spring 1978, p. 74, illustrated W. H. Gerdts, American Impressionism, New York, 1984, pp. 83-4, illustrated H. B. Weinberg, The American Pupils of Jean-Leon Gérôme, Fort Worth, Texas, 1984, p. 91, illustrated H. B. Weinberg, The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth Century American Painters and Their French Teachers, New York, 1991, p. 125 H. B. Weinberg, D. Bolger and D. P. Curry, American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915, New York, 1994, p. 348, illustrated E. E. Hirschler, Dennis Miller Bunker, American Impressionist, Boston, Massachusetts, 1994, p. 29, illustrated as Fig. 7
Exhibited:
Society of American Artists, New York, NY, May - June 1884, no. 18 Twelfth Annual Interstate Industrial Exhibition of Chicago, IL, September - October 1884, no. 363 Exhibition of Paintings by Dennis M. Bunker, Noyes & Blakeslee Galleries, Boston, MA, 1885, no. 7 (as Bank of the Oise) Exhibition of the Pictures of Dennis Miller Bunker, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA, January - February 1891, no. 40 (as The Banks of the Oise) Painting in America, Yesterday and Tomorrow, Decorative Arts Center, New York, Winter 1973 Dennis Miller Bunker (1861-1890) Rediscovered, arranged by the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, April 1 - May 17, 1978, no. 9 (as On the Banks of the Oise); exhibition traveled to Davis & Long Company, New York, NY, June 7 - June 30, 1978
Mary Bunker Cotten Hoyt (sister of the Artist) to Muriel Gurdon Cotten Brotherton (her daughter), 1944 to Gurdon Saltonstall Brotherton (her son) 1967 to Graham Williford, New York 1970 with Berry-Hill Galleries, New York by March 1974 (per American Art Review advertisement) to a New York Estate to Christie's, New York May 25, 2000 lot 37 to Private Collection Westchester, New York
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