About Denis Miller Bunker

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Dennis Miller Bunker
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    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...

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