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Julian (Robert Julian) Onderdonk

Julian (Robert Julian) Onderdonk (1882 - 1922) was active/lived in Texas, New York.  Julian Onderdonk is known for Floral landscape-bluebonnets, genre and seascape painting.

Robert Julian Onderdonk
(1882-1922)
American
 
The Light of Texas
 
Jeffrey Morseburg
 
During his short life, Robert Julian Onderdonk was described as "Texas' Greatest Artist."  He is now referred to as "The Texas Old Master" and remains the most famous and best loved of Texas landscape painters. Through the exhibition of his paintings and the sale of reproductions of his works to visitors to San Antonio, Julian Onderdonk made the beauty of Texas known to Americans who had never visited the Lone Star State. His paintings of fields in the Hill Country of central Texas, awash in sunshine, carpeted with brilliant Bluebonnets, became a legend in his native region. In fact, according to the great folklorist J. Frank Dobie (1888-1964), Onderdonk's impressionistic and highly atmospheric depictions of wildflowers helped to make Texans themselves more appreciative of the beauty of their state flower. Of course, Julian Onderdonk was much more than sim   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 37913 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Julian (Robert Julian) Onderdonk

   Publications  Book References:  34
Magazine References:  6

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6 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Julian (Robert Julian) Onderdonk
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Fine Art Connoisseur The Hosek Collection of American Art October 2006 Trippi, Peter Yes
Southwest Art A Sense of Place October 2000 Greene, Alison De Lima Yes
Southwest Art Collecting Texas Art April 2000 Reese, Becky Duval Yes
Southwest Art Winds of Change March 1999 May, Stephen Yes
Southwest Art Good Buys in the Historic Market January 1998 Brown, Magaret Yes
American Art Review Texas Modern & Post Modern March 1996 Greene, Alison de Lima Yes
34 Book References for Julian (Robert Julian) Onderdonk
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Halff, Harry Julian Onderdonk: A Catalog Raisonne 354 Yes
2014 Baker, James Julian Onderdonk in New York: The Lost Years - The Lost Paintings 230 Yes
2008 Fleming, Geoffrey K. and Sara Evans (Southold Historical Society) A Shared Aesthetic: Artists of Long Island's North Fork 250 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2000 Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942 606 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Grauer, Paula and Michael R. Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945 240 Yes
1997 Southwest Art Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art 128 No
1996 Delehanty, Randolph Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection 292 Yes
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1993 Southwest Art The Red Book Western American Price Index 126 No
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1993 Steinfeld, Cecilia; William H. Goetzmann (Intro) Art for History's Sake The Texas Collection of the Witte Museum 298 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1989 Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro) At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
140 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Steinfeldt, Cecilia Julian Onderdonk A Texas Tradition
(Exhibition catalog)
83 Yes
1984 Gerdts, William H American Impressionism
(Exhibition catalog)
336 Yes
1983 Gerdts, William H Down Garden Paths The Floral Environment in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
144 Yes
1983 Goetzmann, William/B Reese Texas Images & Visions
(Exhibition catalog)
168 Yes
1983 Virginia Museum, Richmond Painting in the South: 1564-1980
(Exhibition catalog)
362 Yes
1978 Schimmel, Julie; Gilbert Tapley Vincent Stark Museum of Art: The Western Collection 244 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 Steinfeldt, Cecilia The Onderdonks: A Family of Texas Painters 238 Yes
1974 Boyle, Richard American Impressionism 238 Yes
1973 Pisano, Ronald J Students of William Merritt Chase
(Exhibition catalog)
44 No
1971 Bywaters, Jerry (Introduction) Texas Painting and Sculpture: 20th Century
(Exhibition catalog)
96 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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