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RobertJulian Onderdonk

(Robert) Julian Onderdonk Julian Onderdonk (July 30, 1882 – October 27, 1922) was a Texan Impressionist painter, often called "the father of Texas painting."
Julian Onderdonk was born in San Antonio, Texas, to Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, a painter, and Emily Gould Onderdonk. He was raised in South Texas and was an enthusiastic sketcher and painter. As a teenager Onderdonk was influenced and received some training from the prominent Texas artist Verner Moore White who also lived in San Antonio at the time. He attended the West Texas Military Academy, graduating in 1900.
At 19, with the help of a generous neighbor, Julian left Texas in order to study with the renowned American Impressionist William Merritt Chase. Julian's father, Robert, had also once studied with Chase. Julian spent the summer of 1901 on Long Island at Chase's Shinnecock School of Art. He studied with Chase for a couple of years and then moved to New York City to attempt to make a living as an en plein air artist. While in New York he met and married Gertrude Shipman and they soon had a son.
Onderdonk returned to San Antonio in 1909, where he produced his best work. His most popular subjects were bluebonnet landscapes. Onderdonk died on October 27, 1922 in San Antonio.
President George W. Bush decorated the Oval Office with three of Onderdonk's paintings. The Dallas Museum of Art has several rooms dedicated exclusively to Onderdonk's work.
His art studio currently resides on the grounds of the Witte Museum.
Blue Bonnet Field, Early Morning, San Antonio Texas, 1914
Road to the Hills,1918, Dallas Museum of Art
Early Spring—Bluebonnets and Mesquite, 1919
Coreopsis, Near San Antonio, Texas, 1919
Dawn in the Hills, 1922
Fall Landscape

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Field of Bluebonnets under Cloudy Sky

Fields of Bluebonnets

Blue Bonnets at Twilight

On the Guadalupe

Fall Landscape

Peach Orchard on Mavericks Farm

A White Road at Late Afternoon

Hudson River View

Field of Bluebonnets

Seascape with Pines and Overhanging Clouds

October Day

San Antonio River

The Quarry

Late Afternoon in the Bluebonnets, S. W. Texas

Untitled (aka Landscape with Catci)

Autumn Sunset

Dawn in the Hills

Buffalo Hunt

Approaching Rain, Southwest Texas

Morning in the Hills Southwest Texas

Evening Near Jackson, Southwest Texas

Springtime

Cactus in Bloom

Old Live Oak

Landscape with Wagon

The Family at Cards (unfinished)

October Sunlight

Crashing Surf

On Long Island Sound near Shelter Island

The Old Apple Tree

Morning in Spring

Road through the Trees

Windmill on Williams Ranch

Landscape Sketch

Blue Bonnets at Late Afternoon

A January Day in the Brush Country

A Spring Morning

Moonlight in South Texas

Morning in the Bluebonnets

In the Hills - Southwest Texas

Snow Scene

Sunlight and Shadow

A June Morning

Golden Evening, Southwest Texas

Snow near the Cave, Central Park, New York

Self Portrait

Goat Herder at the San Antonio Quarry

Autumn Birches, Central Park

Forest Stream (Headwaters of the Guadalupe)

Cliffs on the Guadalupe

Path through a Field of Bluebonnets

Coastal Scene

Landscape

Through the Hills in SW Texas

Mountain Laurel in Bloom

Arrochar Park, Staten Island

Spring Morning

The Woodland Pool

Flying Shadows

Panoramic Landscape

Golden Evening, Southwest Texas

Southwest Texas

Untitled

On The San Antonio River

East Loyal Field

Portrait of Gertrude

Sunlit Hillside

A Winter Morning on the Guadalupe River

Road to the Hills

Autumn Landscape

Glimpse of the Sea, Long Island

Bandera Hills

Late Afternoon

Brush Country Landscape

Landscape with Cattle

Sunlight after Rain

Foot of 52nd Street at Hudson Park

Autumn Landscape

Landscape

Late Afternoon, Valley of the Leon

Texas Landscape

Field of Texas Bluebonnets and Prickly Pear Cacti

October Landscape

Landscape with Coreopsis

Field of Bluebonnets

Texas Dry Country

Landscape

Rainy Day in Bandera

Misty Morning

Landscape

Field with Corn Shocks

Purple Hills

Landscape

Morning on the Pond

Prickly Pear in Blossom

Lingering Snow

Old Live Oak Tree and Bluebonnets on the West Texas Military Grounds, San Antonio

Golden Evening, Southwest Texas

On Long Island Sound near Shelter Island

A Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River

Sunlight and Shadow

Springtime

Texas Landscape

Live Oak Trees On Williams' Ranch, Bandera County

A Cloudy Day, Bluebonnets near San Antonio, Texas

Dawn in the Hills

Moonlight in South Texas

On The San Antonio River

San Antonio River

Redbud Tree in Bloom at Leon Springs, San Antonio

In the Hills of the Spanish Oaks

Late Afternoon, Alamo Heights, San Antonio, Texas

Old Live Oak

Morning in the Live Oaks, Boerne, Texas

View of City Rooftops in Winter

Self Portrait

Fall Landscape

Hill Country Lane

October Sunlight

Mountain Pinks in Bloom, Medina Lake, Southwest Texas

Portrait of Gertrude

Fall Scene near Sisterdale

Glimpse of the Sea, Long Island

Cliffs on the Guadalupe

Landscape with Cattle

Sunlit Hillside

Field with Corn Shocks

Untitled (also known as Bluebonnet Landscape with Catci, Road and Mountain Laurel)

Noontime on the Docks, Hudson River and 85th Street