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Julian Onderdonk
A Cloudy Day, Bluebonnets near San Antonio, Texas A January Day in the Brush Country A Path Through the Texas Hill Country A Spring Morning, Bluebonnets, San Antonio A Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River A White Road at Late Afternoon A Winter Morning on the Guadalupe River Approaching Rain, Southwest Texas Blue Bonnets at Late Afternoon Bluebonnets at Late Afternoon, near La Grange, Texas Bluebonnets at Twilight, near San Antonio Bluebonnets, Late Afternoon, North of San Antonio Bluffs on the Guadalupe Riiver, 17 Miles above Kerryville Texas Evening Near Jackson, Southwest Texas Field of Bluebonnets under Cloudy Sky Field of Texas Bluebonnets and Prickly Pear Cacti Foot of 52nd Street at Hudson Park Forest Stream (aka Headwaters of the Guadalupe) Glimpse of the Sea, Long Island Goat Herder at the San Antonio Quarry Golden Evening, Southwest Texas Golden Evening, SouthWest Texas A Cloudy Day. Bluebonnets near San Antonio, Texas, 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.He attended 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, has also once studied with Chase. Julian spent the summer of 1901 on Long Island at Chase's Shinnecock School of Art. He studied with Chases for a couple of years and then moved to New York to attempt to make a living as an eu plain aire artist. While in New York he met and married Gertrude Shipman and they soon had a son. 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.
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