In the Greenhouse

Bunker probably painted In the Greenhouse during the fall of 1888, after spending the summer light working with John Singer Sargent in England. While there, the two artists experimented with the impressionist techniques that Sargent had learned from Claude Monet. Bunker applied loose dashes of unmixed paint to recreate the shimmering effect of light bouncing off richly colored, densely textured flowers, leaving much of his gray ground layer uncovered. In so doing, Bunker produced a thoroughly
modern painting in which form is nearly dissolved in favor of the sensory experience of a flower-filled hothouse.