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Denis Miller Bunker

Denis Miller Bunker (1861 - 1890) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Denis Bunker is known for Portrait, sea-landscape, and still life painting.

Born in New York City, Dennis Miller Bunker became a portrait artist and Impressionist landscape painter whose work reflects the rapidly changing tastes of his time from Barbizon inspired tonalist landscapes to full-blown Impressionism.

He earned a prestigious reputation on the East Coast during his short life of twenty-nine years.  During the decade of his career, he painted 225 pictures, and in 1978, the New Britain Museum of American Art organized the first major Bunker retrospective since one in 1891 shortly after his death at Boston's St. Bodolph Club.

He was educated in New York and began studying art at age fifteen when he enrolled in the National Academy of Design with Charles Melville Dewey.  Later he entered the Art Students League under William Merritt Chase.

He found many landscape painting subjects in Nantucket and Long Island, but in 1882, went to Paris where he studied both at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Jean Leon Gerome and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5034 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Denis Miller Bunker

   Publications  Book References:  67
Magazine References:  8

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8 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Denis Miller Bunker
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Guild of Boston Artists: 90th Anniv October 2004 Curtis, Judith A Yes
Art & Auction Marketplace January 2000 Editors Yes
Southwest Art Best of the West October 1995 Methner, Ellen Rosenbush Yes
American Artist Exhibits/Dennis Miller Bunker June 1995 Feliciano, Kristina Yes
American Art Review Dennis Miller Bunker and His Circle April 1995 Hirshler, Erica Yes
ARTnews REviews April 1995 Matthew Marks Yes
American Art Review Dennis Miller Bunker/A Tribute April 1995 Porat, Efrat Adler Yes
The Magazine Antiques Dennis Miller Bunker January 1995 Hirshler, Erica E Yes
67 Book References for Denis Miller Bunker
Year Author Title Pages Color
2010 Cleveland, David Adams A History of American Tonalism 592 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Kennedy, Elizabeth (Editor) Chicago Modern 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New
(Exhibition catalog)
176 Yes
2004 Vose, Marcia (editor) Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Circles of Influence, A Timeline 38 Yes
2002 Kennedy and Bourguignon(essays An American Point of View The Daniel J. Terra Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
194 Yes
2000 Wilner, Eli et al The Gilded Edge 0 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Colby, Virginia Reed; James B. Atkinson Footprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire 526 No
1994 Hirshler, Erica E Dennis Miller Bunker American Impressionist
(Exhibition catalog)
190 Yes
1994 Simpson, Marc The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art)
(Exhibition catalog)
315 Yes
1994 Weinberg, H Barbara (others) American Impressionism and Realis The Painting of Modern Life 1885-1915
(Exhibition catalog)
400 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)
495 Yes
1992 Gerdts, William H Masterworks of American Impressionism from the Pfeil Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
282 Yes
1992 Gerdts, William H (essay); Helene Ahrweiler, Roger Mandle Lasting Impressions: American Painters in France, 1865-1915
(Exhibition catalog)
286 Yes
1991 Peters, Lisa N American Impressionist Masterpieces 119 Yes
1991 Weinberg, H Barbara The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers 295 Yes
1990 Broude, Norma (ed) World Impressonism: The International Movement 1860-1920 424 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Masterworks of American Impressionism 163 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Spanierman Gallery The Spencer Collection of American Art/An Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1989 Richard York Gallery An American Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)
88 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Pisano, Ronald G Idle Hours Americans at Leisure 1865-1914 155 Yes
1987 Neff, Terry (editor) A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art 300 Yes
1987 Simon, Robin The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914 255 Yes
1987 Weber, Bruce/William H Gerdts In Nature's Ways American Landscape/Late Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)
120 Yes
1986 Gammell, R H Ives The Boston Painters 1900-1930 204 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Ayres, Linda/Jane Myers American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings From the Collection of Rita and Daniel Fraad
(Exhibition catalog)
114 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Gerdts, William H American Impressionism
(Exhibition catalog)
336 Yes
1984 Weinberg, H Barbara The American Pupils of Jean-Leon Gerome 113 No
1982 Rodriguez Roque, Oswaldo Directions in American Painting 1875-1925
(Exhibition catalog)
112 Yes
1982 Sellin, David / J K Ballinger Americans in Brittany and Normand 1868-1910
(Exhibition catalog)
229 Yes
1981 Gerdts, William H Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939 292 Yes
1981 Quick, Michael; William H Gerdts American Portraiture in the Grand Manner 1720-1920
(Exhibition catalog)
228 Yes
1980 Burke, Doreen Bolger American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64 479 No
1980 Gerdts, William H American Impressionism: The Henry Art Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)
179 Yes
1980 Pierce, Patricia Jobe Edmund C Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting (1889-1980) 285 Yes
1980 Troyen, Carol The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 204 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Kennedy Galleries The American View Art from 1770 to 1978
(Exhibition catalog)
108 Yes
1977 Weinberg, H Barbara (intro) Book of American Figure Painters (Art Experience, Late 19th Cen/ no. 11) 240 No
1976 Pierce, Patricia Jobe The Ten 201 Yes
1976 Richardson, Edgar P American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr & Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd
(Exhibition catalog)
247 Yes
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Boyle, Richard American Impressionism 238 Yes
1974 Gerdts, William H Revealed Masters 19th Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
152 Yes
1973 Hennessey, William J The American Portrait: From the Death of Stuart to Sargent 63 No
1973 Howat, John/Dianne Pilgrim American Impressionist and Realis Paintings & Drawings/Collection R Horowitz
(Exhibition catalog)
167 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)
1075 No
1973 University of Kansas Museum American Drawings and Watercolors 80 No
1971 Gerdts, William; Russell Burke American Still Life Painting 264 Yes
1970 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Forty Masterworks of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
57 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Boston University Boston Painters 1720-1940
(Exhibition catalog)
70 No
1968 Hadley, Rollin V N Drawings Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 68 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
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