Sails and Nets Drying
Dennis Miller Bunker, American, 1861 - 1890
about 1880-1882
Oil on canvas
Overall: 14 5/8 × 21 3/16 in. (37.2 × 53.8 cm)
Frame: 32 1/4 × 26 1/4 in. (81.9 × 66.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jeffrey R. Brown, Class of 1961
P.2004.76
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Initialled, lower right: DB.
Exhibition History
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
Celebrating Twenty Years: Gifts in Honor of the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-December 12, 2005.
Dennis Bunker Memorial Exhibition, St. Botolph Club, Boston, Massachusetts, January 22-February 5, 1891, no. 59.
Painted Air: American Impressionism, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine, August 14-October 15, 2000.
The Golden Years: St. Botolph Club Exhibitions, 1881-1921, St. Botolph Club, Boston, Massachusetts, March 1-June 2, 2000.
Publication History
Katherine W. Hart et al., Celebrating Twenty Years: Gifts in Honor of the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005, pp. 40, ill. p. 41, cat. no. 11.
The Golden Years: St. Botolph Club Exhibitions, 1881-1921, Boston: St. Botolph Club, 2002, illus.
Michael Culver, Painted Air: American Impressionism, Ogunquit: Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 2000.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 64, no. 43.
Provenance
George M. Flint, Boston; by descent to his great-grandson, George M. Flint, III, Maryland; consigned to Skinner's, Bolton, Massachusetts, September 25, 1998, no. 382; sold to Jeffrey R. Brown, Milton, Massachusetts, 1998; given to present collection, 2004.
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