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- oil on canvas14 x 20 5/8 in. (35.9 x 52.6 cm.)PROVENANCEJames McGrath, BostonVose Galleries, Inc., BostonJeffrey R. Brown, Long Meadow, MassachusettsSteven Straw Company, Inc., Newburyport, MassachusettsSan Francisco, Butterfield and Butterfield (Sale: Oct. 8, 1980, lot 165)EXHIBITEDBoston, St. Botolph Club, Exhibition of the Paintings of Dennis Miller Bunker, Jan.-Feb. 1891, no. 56, as A Hulk (probably this work)New Britain, Connecticut, New Britain Museum of American Art, Dennis Miller Bunker Rediscovered, April 1978, no. 22 (this exhibition travelled to New York, Davis & Long Company, Inc., June 1978)Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Directions in American Painting 1875-1925, June-Aug. 1982, pp. 16-17, illus. (this exhibition travelled to various locations, 1982-1987)Youngstown, Youngstown State University, The John J. McDonough Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, Oct. 1991-May 1992, p. 26Unlike his interior and figure paintings which reflect his allegiance to academic ideologies, Dennis Miller Bunker's landscapes illustrate his innovative reworking of impressionist precepts. His early landscapes, such as Old Hulks, however, exhibit qualities more closely associated with the Barbizon School. In the present picture, Bunker maintains the solidity of form and relegates his palette to limited tones not unlike landscapes by Courbet. Typical to Bunker's depictions of abandoned boats painted before 1888, Old Hulks suggests quietude and isolation through bold forms, dark earthy tones and a penetrating gray light.