Onderdonk: American Impressionist
Title Untitled (Fields of Bluebonnets), N.d.,
Artist: Julian Onderdonk (American 1882-1922)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 39-38 x 23 3/8 in.
Permanent Collection: Dallas Museum of Art
Bequest of Margaret M. Ferris
Image Courtesy: Dallas Museum of Art
Bluebonnets and Beyond: Julian Onderdonk, American Impressionist
Dallas Museum of Art
through July 20, 2008
Title In the Hills of the Spanish Oaks, N.d
Artist: Julian Onderdonk (American 1882-1922)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 25 x 30 inches
Alexander H. Albritton, Dallas, Texas
Image Courtesy: Dallas Museum of Art
Considered to be among William Merritt Chase's best
students, Julian Onderdonk, painted his beloved Texas landscape
earning the sobriquet "The Bluebonnet Painter"
Onderdonk was also known as "The Father of Texas Paintings".
Born in San Antonio he was the son of a professional artist. Naturally
his first teacher was his father, eventually like his father
he studied at the Art Students League with Kenyon Cox.
Title Dawn in the Hills, 1922
Artist: Julian Onderdonk (American 1882-1922)
Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30 x 40 in.
Permanent Collection: Witte Museum, San Antonio, TX
Image Courtesy: Dallas Museum of Art
He went on to study at the Shinnecock Summer School in
Southampton, Long Island with Chase. Like the French Impressionists
William Merritt Chase advocated painting en plein air something that suited
Onderdonk's style.
Title Southwest Texas, c. 1919
Artist: Julian Onderdonk (American 1882-1922)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20 x 30 in.
Collection: Melissa and Trevor Fetter
Image Courtesy: Dallas Museum of Art
Onderdonk was hired to assist in organizing art exhibitions for the Texas State Fair. This
brought him back to Texas and eventually he settled in his home town.
Title Red Bud Tree in Bloom at Leon Springs, San Antonio, 1921
Artist: Julian Onderdonk (American 1882-1922)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:20 x 30 in,
Private collection, Dallas
Image Courtesy: Dallas Museum of Art
His life was short, he died unexpectedly at age 40 following surgery for a stomach ailment.
The Dallas Museum of Art is the first stop on a three city Texas tour of an exhibition
exploring Julian Onderdonk's career.
Title Spring Morning, 1911
Artist: Julian Onderdonk (American 1882-1922)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:20 x 30 in.,
Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, San Antonio, TX
Image Courtesy: Dallas Museum of Art
"Bluebonnets and Beyond is the first critical re-examination of one of early Texas’s most important painters,"
said Dr. William Keyse Rudolph, The Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.
"Julian Onderdonk is one of early 20th century America’s most overlooked landscape artists."
Bluebonnets and Beyond: Julian Onderdonk, American Impressionist
Dallas Museum of Art:
through July 20, 2008
Witte Museum, San Antonio
September 18 - January 11, 2009
Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas
February 10 - May 24, 2009
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