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... Read full biography
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.... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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),... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (33)
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Julian Onderdonk: A Catalog Raisonne
2016
Halff, Harry
354 pages (color)
Julian Onderdonk in New York: The Lost Years - The Lost Paintings
2014
Baker, James
230 pages (color)
A Shared Aesthetic: Artists of Long Island's North Fork
2008
Fleming, Geoffrey K. and Sara Evans (Southold Historical Society)
250 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942
2000
Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward
606 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945
1999
Grauer, Paula and Michael R.
240 pages (color)
Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997
Southwest Art
128 pages
Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996
Delehanty, Randolph
292 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993
Southwest Art
126 pages
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
Art for History's Sake The Texas Collection of the Witte Museum
1993
Steinfeld, Cecilia; William H. Goetzmann (Intro)
298 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro)
140 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Julian Onderdonk A Texas Tradition (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Steinfeldt, Cecilia
83 pages (color)
American Impressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Gerdts, William H
336 pages (color)
Down Garden Paths The Floral Environment in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Gerdts, William H
144 pages (color)
Texas Images & Visions (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Goetzmann, William/B Reese
168 pages (color)
Painting in the South: 1564-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Virginia Museum, Richmond
362 pages (color)
Stark Museum of Art: The Western Collection
1978
Schimmel, Julie; Gilbert Tapley Vincent
244 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
The Onderdonks: A Family of Texas Painters
1976
Steinfeldt, Cecilia
238 pages (color)
American Impressionism
1974
Boyle, Richard
238 pages (color)
Students of William Merritt Chase (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Pisano, Ronald J
44 pages
Texas Painting and Sculpture: 20th Century (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Bywaters, Jerry (Introduction)
96 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index