Object details
Accession number
P3n5
Primary Creator
Dennis Miller Bunker
(Garden City, New York, 1861 - 1890, Boston)
Full title
Marble Torso of a Woman
Creation Date
about 1878
Provenance
Painted 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.
Dimensions
43 x 27 cm (16 15/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
Display Media
Oil on canvas
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Blue Room
Bibliography
Catalogue. 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)
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