Marble Torso of a Woman
painter
Dennis Miller Bunker
(Garden City, New York, 1861 - 1890, Boston)
Dateabout 1878
Place MadeUnited States, North America
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions43 x 27 cm (16 15/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP3n5
eMuseum ID719004
EmbARK ObjectID10813
TMS Source ID80
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesCatalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 1. (entitled "Statuette")
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 81.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 36.
R.H. Ives Gammell. Dennis Miller Bunker (New York, 1953), p. 4. (called "an oil study...painted when he was not more than seventeen"; 1878 or earlier)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 51-52, ill. (as probably a very early study)
Erica Hirshler. Denis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist. Exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Chicago: Terra Museum of American Art and Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1995), p. 179. (as undated)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 81.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 36.
R.H. Ives Gammell. Dennis Miller Bunker (New York, 1953), p. 4. (called "an oil study...painted when he was not more than seventeen"; 1878 or earlier)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 51-52, ill. (as probably a very early study)
Erica Hirshler. Denis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist. Exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Chicago: Terra Museum of American Art and Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1995), p. 179. (as undated)
ProvenanceNotesPainted at the National Academy of Design (?), New York.
Gift of the artist, the American painter Dennis Miller Bunker (1861-1890), to Isabella Stewart Gardner (?).
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection before 1903.
Gift of the artist, the American painter Dennis Miller Bunker (1861-1890), to Isabella Stewart Gardner (?).
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection before 1903.
