Julian Onderdonk

the long version

"This illustrated catalogue offers a critical look at impressionist Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922), one of Texas's finest landscape painters and a pupil of William Merritt Chase. Among Chase's most dazzling students at the Shinnecock Summer School in Long Island, Onderdonk brought Chase's aesthetic of nature to an entirely new part of the American landscape, transformed it, and created indelible images of his native state. By his death at age forty, Onderdonk had been christened "The Bluebonnet Painter" in recognition of his lush signature landscapes depicting fields of the state flower." "The essays examine the relationship between Chase and Onderdonk and how that dialogue influenced the way the latter viewed Texas. They also address Onderdonk's relationship to the Western American tradition of landscape painting. Readers and viewers interested in American landscape, American Impressionism, and Southwestern art will enjoy both the critical essays and the beautiful illustrations - many never before seen."--Jacket.