Oil on canvas, 18 x 12 in., 23 x17 in. (framed). From a Connecticut estate, inquire for more detailed provenance. Landscape. Illustration for a poem: "A Country Road", By Richard Kendall Munkittrick (1853–1911. [Born in Manchester, England, 1853. Died in Stamford, Conn., 1911.]YELLOW with dust it sleeps in noonday’s glare, Yellow with dust it stretches far away; On the mossed wall the chipmunks frisk and play,Where golden daisies broider all the air.Now nature seems to dream ’mid fragrance rare, 5 For summer silence holds unbroken sway, Till round the bend a creaking wain of hayComes lumbering down the drowsy thoroughfare;Then all is still again. The orchard trees Are motionless as the distant purple hills 10 On which the shadows of the white clouds rest,When suddenly the white-flecked clover seas All joyous tremble, while the bobolink trills His wildest melodies with sweet unrest. Harper’s Weekly. 188–. The following is submitted by Cornelia C Moynihan, who took her information from Who Was Who in American Art by Peter Falk:Andrew Fisher Bunner ANA 1841-1897Andrew Fisher Bunner was born in 1841 in New York City, and he studied there and in Europe. In fact, his career included extended travels in France, Holland, Germany, and Italy (1871-76) and especially Venice again, where he lived from 1883-1886. He never became completely expatriated, however, but retained his strongest ties to the United States. He exhibited every year 1865-1896 at the National Academy of Design, most years at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1877-1890), and frequently at the Boston Art Club and the Brooklyn Art Association as well as the Paris Salon, 1878.Residing for several years in South Hampton NY, he often painted summers on Long Island or along the Hudson River. His work is in a number of museum collections, from the Met in NYC to CT (Yale), PA, CO, and NM. Elected to Associate of the National Academy in 1880, Bunner might well have become a full member except for his relatively early death at age 56 in 1897.

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