Background
Julian Onderdonk was born in San Antonio, Texas, to Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, a painter, and Emily Gould Onderdonk.
Julian Onderdonk was born in San Antonio, Texas, to Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, a painter, and Emily Gould Onderdonk.
He attended the West Texas Military Academy, graduating in 1900.
He was raised in South Texas and was an enthusiastic sketcher and painter. As a teenager Onderdonk was influenced and received some training from the prominent Texas artist Verner Moore White who also lived in San Antonio at the time. 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, had also once studied with Chase.
Julian spent the summer of 1901 on Long Island at Chase"s Shinnecock School of Artist He studied with Chase for a couple of years and then moved to New York City to attempt to make a living as an en plein air artist.
Onderdonk returned to San Antonio in 1909, where he produced his best work. His most popular subjects were bluebonnet landscapes.
Onderdonk died on October 27, 1922 in San Antonio.
President George West. 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. His art studio currently resides on the grounds of the Witte Museum.
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Bluebonnets, Late Afternoon, North of San Antonio
Landscape with Coreopsis
Self Portrait
Misty Morning
The Family at Cards (unfinished)
Untitled
Texas Landscape
Fall Landscape
Live Oak Trees on Williams' Ranch, Bandera County
Bluebonnet Scene
Lingering Snow
The Woodland Pool
Cliffs on the Guadalupe
View of City Rooftops in Winter
Landscape
Panoramic Landscape
Hill Country Lane
Autumn Birches, Central Park
Sunlight and Shadow
Cactus in Bloom
A Spring Morning
Autumn Landscape
Bluebonnets at Twilight, near San Antonio
Sunlit Hillside
Fall Scene near Sisterdale
Old Live Oak
Redbud Tree in Bloom at Leon Springs, San Antonio
San Antonio River
Snow near the Cave, Central Park, New York
Sunlight after Rain
Late Afternoon, Alamo Heights, San Antonio, Texas
Crashing Surf
A Cloudy Day, Bluebonnets near San Antonio, Texas
The Old Apple Tree
Bluebonnet Scene
Bluebonnets at Sunrise
Untitled (aka Landscape with Catci)
Texas Dry Country
Bluebonnets, Late Afternoon
Arrochar Park, Staten Island
A Path Through the Texas Hill Country
Bluebonnet Field
Bluebonnet Landscape with Catci, Road and Mountain Laurel
Field of Bluebonnets
Through the Hills in SW Texas
Dawn in the Hills
Field of Bluebonnets under Cloudy Sky
Landscape Sketch
Moonlight in South Texas
On Long Island Sound near Shelter Island
In the Hills of the Spanish Oaks
Snow Scene
Bluebonnets in Texas
Evening Near Jackson, Southwest Texas
Late Afternoon in the Bluebonnets, S. W. Texas
Sunlit Hillside
Landscape with Wagon
A Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River
Landscape
Approaching Rain, Southwest Texas
Coastal Scene
Goat Herder at the San Antonio Quarry
Mountain Pinks in Bloom, Medina Lake, Southwest Texas
Bluebonnets at Dusk
Late Afternoon, Valley of the Leon
Landscape
A January Day in the Brush Country
Windmill on Williams Ranch
Golden Evening, Southwest Texas
Fields of Bluebonnets
The Quarry
Prickly Pear in Blossom
Buffalo Hunt
East Loyal Field
Autumn Sunset
On the Guadalupe
Landscape
Rainy Day in Bandera
Path through a Field of Bluebonnets
Golden Evening, Southwest Texas
In the Hills - Southwest Texas
October Landscape
Forest Stream (Headwaters of the Guadalupe)
Bluebonnets at Late Afternoon
On The San Antonio River
Field with Corn Shocks
Bluebonnet Scene
Mountain Laurel in Bloom
A June Morning
Hudson River View
A Winter Morning on the Guadalupe River
Bluffs on the Guadalupe Riiver, 17 Miles above Kerryville Texas
Spring Morning
Noontime on the Docks, Hudson River and 85th Street
A White Road at Late Afternoon
Blue Bonnets at Late Afternoon
Road through the Trees
Morning in the Bluebonnets
Springtime
Bluebonnet Scene with a Girl
Peach Orchard on Mavericks Farm
Flying Shadows
Morning in Spring
Purple Hills
Glimpse of the Sea, Long Island
Field of Bluebonnets
Road to the Hills
October Sunlight
Foot of 52nd Street at Hudson Park
Late Afternoon
October Day
Old Live Oak Tree and Bluebonnets on the West Texas Military Grounds, San Antonio
Seascape with Pines and Overhanging Clouds
Last Rays of Sunlight, Early Spring in San Antonio
Landscape
Blue Bonnets at Twilight
Southwest Texas
Brush Country Landscape
Morning in the Hills Southwest Texas
Bluebonnets at Late Afternoon, near La Grange
Field of Texas Bluebonnets and Prickly Pear Cacti
Morning on the Pond
Landscape with Cattle
Bluebonnets on a Grey Day
Autumn Landscape
Bandera Hills
Portrait of Gertrude