Artist. He was an American impressionist painter of landscapes and portraits in the late nineteenth century. Due to his early death at age 29, his works fell into obscurity until artist R.H. Ives Gammell researched and published a biography of him in 1953. He studied at the art Students League of New York and the National Academy of Design. After exhibiting in New York City, New York and Boston, Massachusetts in 1880 and 1881, he studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France under painter and sculptor Jean-Leon Gerome, beginning in 1882. In the summer of 1883 he and fellow art students Charles A. Platt and Kenneth R. Cranford, left Paris to paint in the French countryside and the Normandy seacoast, returning to school in the fall. The next year they painted in Brittany before his return to New York in the fall of 1884. Upon his return to America he was elected to the Society of American Artists and became an art teacher in Boston and friends and associate of prominent artists. In 1887 he met painter John Singer Sargent in Boston and spent the summer of 1888 in England with Sargent's family. It was here that he completed his immersion into impressionism. He was married in October 1890, but died only two months later from heart failure caused by cerebral meningitis from influenza. He was one of the earliest American painters to apply the new painting style of Impressionism, and his early death was thought by a number of art critics and historians to have denied him of becoming the leader of the soon to be preeminent style in American art. Some of his notable works are “The Pool, Medfield” (1889), located in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, “Portrait Sketch of Eleanor Hardy Bunker” (1890), and “Meadow Lands” (1890).
Artist. He was an American impressionist painter of landscapes and portraits in the late nineteenth century. Due to his early death at age 29, his works fell into obscurity until artist R.H. Ives Gammell researched and published a biography of him in 1953. He studied at the art Students League of New York and the National Academy of Design. After exhibiting in New York City, New York and Boston, Massachusetts in 1880 and 1881, he studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France under painter and sculptor Jean-Leon Gerome, beginning in 1882. In the summer of 1883 he and fellow art students Charles A. Platt and Kenneth R. Cranford, left Paris to paint in the French countryside and the Normandy seacoast, returning to school in the fall. The next year they painted in Brittany before his return to New York in the fall of 1884. Upon his return to America he was elected to the Society of American Artists and became an art teacher in Boston and friends and associate of prominent artists. In 1887 he met painter John Singer Sargent in Boston and spent the summer of 1888 in England with Sargent's family. It was here that he completed his immersion into impressionism. He was married in October 1890, but died only two months later from heart failure caused by cerebral meningitis from influenza. He was one of the earliest American painters to apply the new painting style of Impressionism, and his early death was thought by a number of art critics and historians to have denied him of becoming the leader of the soon to be preeminent style in American art. Some of his notable works are “The Pool, Medfield” (1889), located in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, “Portrait Sketch of Eleanor Hardy Bunker” (1890), and “Meadow Lands” (1890).
Bio by: Randy Mulkey
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In Memoriam
Dennis Miller Bunker
Born November VI
MDCCCLXI
Died December
XXVIII MDCCCXC
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Tombstone created by his friends Sculptors: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848-1907 and Stanford White, 1853-1906. Located on the hill left of the duck pond on Pine Ave. near his Hardy relatives..
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