On The Old Blanco Road Southwest Texas Cowboys 1911

by Peter Ogden

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On The Old Blanco Road Southwest Texas Cowboys 1911

Artist

Peter Ogden

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

This is a reproduction of On the Old Blanco Road, Southwest Texas, 1911, by listed American painter Julian Onderdonk, 1882- 1922. Oil on canvas. This painting depicts two cowboys tending a campfire while cooking dinner near their covered wagon in a rural early twentieth century San Antonio ranch landscape while their horses keep cool under the shade of a nearby tree. This is a classic south Texas cowboy life scene.
(Robert) Julian Onderdonk (July 30, 1882 – October 27, 1922) was a Texan Impressionist painter, often called "the father of Texas painting.
ulian Onderdonk was born in San Antonio, Texas, to Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, a painter, and Emily Gould Onderdonk. He was the brother of Eleanor Onderdonk, also a prominent Texas painter, sculptor, and art administrator. His grandfather Henry Onderdonk was the Headmaster of Saint James School in Maryland, from which Julian's father Robert graduated.
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. He attended the West Texas Military Academy, now the TMI Episcopal, graduating in 1900.
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 Hills Summer School of Art. 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. While in New York he met and married Gertrude Shipman and they soon had a daughter, Adrienne.
Opuntia, commonly called prickly pear or pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae. Prickly pears are also known as tuna, sabra, nopal from the Nahuatl word nōpalli for the pads, or nostle, from the Nahuatl word nōchtli for the fruit; or paddle cactus.
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June 24th, 2017

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