Dennis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1994. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Very Good dust jacket. The jacket has one tiny chip and a few short closed edge tears. It is protected by a removable clear-plastic sleeve. Sharp corners. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. Profusely ilustrated exhibition catalogue -- 55 in full color, 89 bw plates. Includes essays/contributions by David Park Curry, Theodore Stebbins, Efrat Adler Porat and Deanna M. Griffin. Published to accompany the exhibitions (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January 13 to June 4, 1995; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, July 1 to September 1995; Denver Art Museum, October 14 to December 31, 1995). Bound in the original gilt-stamped green cloth. From the dust jacket: "Dennis Miller Bunker (1861-1890) was one of the most talented painters of late nineteenth-century America. He was among the first Americans to use the bright colors and broken brushstrokes of the new Impressionist style; his beautiful landscapes and portraits are sought after by the most distinguished collectors of American art. DENNIS MILLER BUNKER: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST is the first comprehensive study of this important American artist. Trained in the academies of his native New York, Bunker continued his education in Paris, where he flourished in the sophisticated atmosphere of the world's art capital. In 1885, he accepted a teaching position in Boston. He joined the city's vibrant artistic community and developed close friendships with the writer William Dean Howells, the composer Charles Martin Loeffler, and the legendary collector Isabella Stewart Gardner, who became his champion. In Boston, Bunker also met John Singer Sargent, America's most renowned painter. The summer they spent working together in England proved to be a turning point in Bunker's career. Bunker moved to New York in 1889. His heart remained in Boston, however, for he had fallen in love with Eleanor Hardy, the daughter of a prominent businessman. The couple married in October 1890. Barely three months later, Bunker died at age twenty-nine of a sudden illness. His beautifully crafted paintings were his only legacy." Oversize Hardcover. Oblong. 11.25" wide by 10.5" tall. This large book will require SUBSTANTIAL extra postage for International shipments, but only the standard charge for priority or media mail. . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 190pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.