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Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922) 10 x 14 inches
Lot 300

Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922) 10 x 14 inches

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000
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Artist: Julian Onderdonk Title: Bluebonnets in Late Afternoon Medium: Oil on board Dimensions: 10 x 14 inches Signed: Signed lower right Verso: Signed, tilted and dated 1919-1920 verso Framed/Base: 17 x 21 inches

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Height: 17.00
Width: 21.00

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Provenance:
Regina Giesecke Collection, Ballinger, Texas
Sold by decent in family partnership, Scottsdale, Arizona
 
Widely regarded as one of the most important painters of Texas landscapes, Julian Onderdonk lived a short life of only 40 years, but in that time managed to fully capture the beauty and atmosphere of the Lone Star State. He also tapped into imagery before it was considered iconography—most notably Texas’ famous state flower, bluebonnets. The son of painter Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, Robert Julian Onderdonk grew up surrounded by art and was encouraged by his father. At the age of 19, the younger Onderdonk traveled to New York City to attend the Art Students League, where his father went to school more than two decades earlier. His first teacher was Kenyon Cox, followed by figurative painter Frank Vincent DuMond and, later, Robert Henri. But it was a summer class in 1901 taught by William Merritt Chase that changed the way Onderdonk worked. Chase urged his students to work alla-prima, which is a wet-on-wet painting completed in a single session. This new approach allowed the young artist to use direct observation to create an image quickly in the field. It was at that moment Julian decided he wanted to be a landscape painter. By 1906, he was back in Texas painting landscapes, accepting commissions and taking illustration assignments. “While I was still studying...it was my one ambition to return to Texas and to paint some of the things that I remembered as a boy,” Onderdonk said. “I found, however, that my memory had played me false, for it was like stepping into another world, the wonders of which had been read of, never seen.”

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