Dennis Miller Bunker was an American painter and innovator of American Impressionism. His mature works include both brightly colored landscape paintings and dark, finely drawn portraits and figures. One of the major American painters of the late 19th century, and a friend of many prominent artists of the era, Bunker died from meningitis at the age of 29.
Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot, John Singer Sargent, 1888
The Pool, Medfield, 1889. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Portrait Sketch of Eleanor Hardy Bunker, 1890. Private collection.
Jessica, 1890. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. The style is characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors with a wide array of subject matters but focusing on landscapes and upper-class domestic life.
Frank W. Benson, Eleanor Holding a Shell, North Haven, Maine, 1902, private collection
Theodore Robinson, Low Tide Riverside Yacht Club, (1894), Collection of Margaret and Raymond Horowitz
Mary Cassatt, The Child's Bath (1893)
Childe Hassam, Cliffs and Sea, 1903, private collection