Interior of a Barn: Medfield

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DENNIS MILLER BUNKER (1861-1890)
Interior of a Barn: Medfield
signed and inscribed 'To Miss Fay/D.B.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1888.

Provenance

The artist.
Elise Fay Loeffler, Medfield, Massachusetts, gift from the above, circa 1888.
Mrs. R. W. Ramsdell, acquired by 1945.
Catherine M. Ramsdell, acquired from the above, by 1978.
Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., New York.
John G. Hagan, Wellesley, Massachusetts, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1997.

Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis Miller Bunker: A Supplementary Group of Paintings and Water Colors Including Some Early Works, February-March 1945, p. 1, no. 9.
New Britain, Connecticut, New Britain Museum of American Art; New York, Davis & Long Company, Dennis Miller Bunker Rediscovered, April 1-June 30, 1978, n.p., no. 24.

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Lot Essay

During his brief and celebrated career, Dennis Miller Bunker produced some of the most accomplished landscapes, still-lifes and figural paintings of his generation. He counted among his friends many of the period’s greatest artists, including John Singer Sargent, Edmund Tarbell and Thomas Wilmer Dewing. Bunker additionally studied with William Merritt Chase in New York and Jean-Leon Gérôme in Paris. Depicting a shadowy barn interior in Medfield, Massachusetts, the present work exemplifies Bunker's mastery of brushwork and light. Located southwest of Boston, Medfield was a favorite summer retreat of the artist, where he frequently visited his close friend Charles Martin Loeffler and Loeffler's future wife, Elise Fay, to whom this work is dedicated.

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