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JULIAN ONDERDONK (American, 1882-1922). Summer Afternoon. Oil on board. 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm). Signed lower left...
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JULIAN ONDERDONK (American, 1882-1922)Summer Afternoon
Oil on board
6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm)
Signed lower left: Julian Onderdonk
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Sale: Mystic Fine Arts, Ltd., Mystic, Connecticut, November 13, 1997, lot 145;
Altermann Galleries & Auctioneers, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 5, 2013, lot 157.
In 1909, after studying art in New York for eight years, Julian Onderdonk returned to Texas. During the following thirteen years, before his tragic death in 1922, Julian would paint the Texas landscape with a skill and sensitivity few, if any, artists have equaled. The particularly high quality of his paintings during this period is partly due to the formal training he received while attending the Art Student League of New York. It was there that he began taking classes from William Merritt Chase and later attended Chase's summer art school at Shinnecock, New York. Chase's formal influence helped Julian refine his work and further develop his own brand of American Impressionism, largely inspired by the beauty and grandeur of the Texas landscape.
Chase is considered by many to be the most important American art teacher of his generation; some of his most famous students include Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, and Edward Hopper, to name a few. Chase began influencing Julian's work long before the two met. Julian's father and artist, Robert J. Onderdonk, helped found the Art Student League of New York and studied art with Chase during his last year there. Robert eventually settled in San Antonio, Texas and started a family. When Julian was sixteen years old Robert officially became his first art teacher, passing many of the lessons he learned from Chase on to his son long before Julian ever left Texas.
Julian often embraced other styles popular during this period, especially Realism and Tonalism. Elements of Realism are evident in most of his landscapes, a product of his lifelong obsession with the natural world of Texas. His sister and fellow artist, Eleanor once wrote, "It is impossible to look at any of Julian's paintings and not see the man who looked at nature with wide-open eyes, analyzed, studied and then created." Additionally, many of Julian's paintings show the influence of the earlier Barbizon movement in France and the United States, exemplified by the later paintings of George Inness and the contemporaneous movement dubbed "Tonalism." While the foundation of his style is firmly rooted in Impressionism, at least some Tonalist elements can be found in a great deal of Julian's paintings. Indeed, some resemble the landscapes of Inness more than those of Chase.
Julian's Impressionist landscapes of bluebonnets inspired exhibitions of paintings of Texas wildflowers in San Antonio from 1927 to 1929, and ultimately gave rise to the ubiquitous "Bluebonnet School," prevalent in Texas even today. Julian Onderdonk is often categorized as a Texas artist because of the popularity of his breathtaking paintings of the Texas Hill Country, especially those that include bluebonnets, but these three paintings show that definition is far too narrow. As the demand for his work grows, both inside and outside of Texas, they are increasingly being recognized as important examples of American Impressionism which transcend any regional classification.
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