Elise Fay Loeffler, Medfield, Massachusetts (acquired directly from the artist circa 1888)

Mrs. R. W. Ramsdell (acquired by 1945)

Catheꦏrine M. Ramsdell (acquired from the above b♈y 1978)

The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., New York

John♏ G. Hagan, Wellesley, Massachusetts (acquired from the✃ above)

Acquired from the above in 199🅘7 by the present owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Dennis Miller Bunker: A Supplementary Group of Paintings and Water Colors Including Some Early Works, February - March 1945, no. 9, p. 1

Connecticut, New Britain Museum of American Art; New York, David & Long Company, Dennis Miller Bunker (1861 - 1890): Rediscovered, April - June 1978, no. 24, n.p.

Dennis Miller Bunker painted the present work in Medfield, Massachusetts in 1888 – the same period in which he executed some of his most celebrated works, such as The Pool, Medfield held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Known for his Impressionistic style and interest in painting en plein air, Bunker’s work was revolutionary fo෴r its time in its daring application of a visib🍌le and loose brushwork style.

Although Bunker died young at twenty-nine years old, many of his best works are included in the permanent collections of institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and elsewhere. Accentuated by long fluid lines and thoughtful use of shading, th𓃲e present work synthesizes Bunker’s painterly style with the refreshing domesticity of agrarian life in nineteenth-century America. 

Around 1888, Bunker gifted Interior of a Barn: Medfield🌠 to Elise Fay, the wife of the artist’s good friend and patron Charles Martin Loeffler. The pres🐷ent work has been exhibited in major surveys of the artist’s work, including at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the spring of 1945 and the New Britain Museum of Art in 1978.