1910s Paintings

Robert Jenkins Onderdonk (1852 - 1917) San Antonio Artist Toluca, Mexico painting. Mexican Street Scene Image Size: 11 x 8 Frame Size: 15 x 12 Medium: Oil "Toluca, Mexico" Circa 1912 This piece was painted in 1912 when Robert & his wife went to visit his son who was working in Mexico City at that time. Robert Onderdonk is considered the "Dean" of Texas Painters. Robert Jenkins Onderdonk (1852 - 1917) Robert Jenkins Onderdonk is noted for his landscape and portrait paintings and also for his fine art teaching. Onderdonk was born in Catonsville, Maryland in 1852. He was the father of Robert Julian Onderdonk and Eleanor Rogers Onderdonk, also distinguished Texas artists. He received an academic education at the College of St. James, Catonsville, followed by studies at the National Academy of Design in 1872 under the instruction of Lemuel Everett Wilmarth. In 1875, Onderdonk attended Art Students League of New York and received instruction from Walter Shirlaw, James Carroll Beckwith and William Merritt Chase. Onderdonk moved to San Antonio, Texas in 1878 where he made a living teaching and selling his paintings. In 1889 he moved to Dallas, where he painted several portraits for the Huburt Portrait Company, followed by employment with the Art Students League of Dallas. In 1896, Onderdonk returned to San Antonio, Texas where he continued to paint until his death in 1917. Onderdonk was a member of the Allied Artists of America; Salmagundi Club, New York, and the San Antonio Art League. Exhibitions included the Annual Exhibition of the State Fair of Texas, Dallas; Dallas Art Association; Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis; Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth; Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, and the San Antonio Art League. Source: John and Deborah Powers, "Texas Painters, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists" Robert Jenkins Onderdonk was born at St. Timothy's Hall, Catonsville Maryland, in 1852. He had a very thorough academic education and was always sketching family members, classmates and landscapes on the back of his school books. This sketching ethic was a process he subscribed to his entire life, always carrying a sketch book with him where ever he went, like a camera of today. Deciding to make art his profession, Robert moved to New York. He was not only a part of the academic beginnings of American art while studying in New York at the renowned National Academy of Design in 1870, but also one of the first student members, under the instruction of Lemuel Everett Wilmarth, at the Arts Students League. At the League, Robert also studied and honed his craft with other teachers including Walter Shirlaw, William Merritt Chase and James Carroll Beckwith. Some of his classmates included: George Inness, Jr., Frederick Stuart Church, John Henry Twachtman and a Texan from San Antonio named Edward Grenet. Robert was lured to Texas in 1879 by his childhood friend and rancher, William Negely and by stories he read in the tabloids of the day that touted Texas as the "Promised Land." Robert found the light, people and atmosphere of San Antonio agreeable and quickly settled in. He soon met a fellow Texas artist, Emily Gould, whom he married in 1881. They lived with her parents in a house called "Bella Vista" throughout their lives. The house was two miles north of town, had a wonderful view of the city and still stands today. Here Robert lived and taught art classes, painted portrait commissions, landscapes, still lifes and supported his family. Some of his students, who later became well-known Texas artists, were Mary Bonner, Seymour Thomas, Edward D. Eisenlohr, and Rolla Taylor. Robert worked hard and encouraged his students to do their best. Robert was part of and organized several of the first art clubs in Texas, further helping to develop an interest in Texas art in the State and nationwide, but also giving Texas and American artists places to display their works, win awards and achieve much needed recognition. He helped organize "The Brass Mug Club," a revered group of San Antonio artists that met on Sundays to enjoy friendship and go into the Texas Hill Country and paint. Members included Julian Onderdonk (Robert's son), José Arpa, Leo Cotton, Rolla Taylor, Tom Brown and Ernst Raba. In 1912, Robert and Julian were involved in the organization of the San Antonio Art League, the first important art organization in Texas with the mission to establish a free public gallery in San Antonio with exhibitions, lectures and classes in art. Later, larger exhibitions that needed more room due to the extreme popularity of the League and its awards were held at the Witte Museum in San Antonio. While living in Dallas from 1889 to 1895, and in order to obtain commissions, Robert organized the first Dallas art school, the Dallas Arts Students League, where he was president and instructor. In 1905, Robert was chosen to select artists from New York and Texas to be represented and judged at the Dallas Fair, which later became the State Fair of Texas. In 1901, Robert was commissioned by well-known Texas historian and writer, James T. DeShields, to paint a large historic painting of the Alamo battle. He used his family, friends and fellow artists for this painting, including his son. Robert even put himself in the painting, as one of the Alamo Defenders, taking a mortal shot from the enemy and falling backwards. The painting took three years to complete. The Fall of The Alamo was first exhibited at the St. Louis Worlds Fair in 1904. Among Robert's important commissions were the illustrations he provided for feared Texas gunfighter John Wesley Hardin's autobiography, The Life of John Wesley Hardin, published in 1896. This was a courageous task by Onderdonk considering that Hardin, who had killed over forty men, was the fastest gun in the West, East, North or South. When Robert Jenkins Onderdonk died in 1917 at the age of sixty-five at his home in San Antonio, he was known as the dean of Texas artists. His contributions to Texas art and the early artists of Texas were well-known and well-respected. Written by Peter C. Rainone, as published in American Art Review, June 2008 Robert Onderdonk was educated at the College of St. James in Maryland where his father was headmaster. At 20, he studied for two years at the National Academy of Design, under Wilmarth, then at the Art Students League under Shirlaw and Beckwith. He was the private pupil of A H Warren, a tonalist painter known as "the Corot of America." In 1878, he concluded his art studies with William Merritt Chase. To earn funds for a European trip he never made, Onderdonk was persuaded to establish his studio in San Antonio in 1878. By 1881 he was married, living near Pedro Spring, and taking the mule car to his studio in the city. He always carried with him a wood panel such as the top of a cigar box so he could paint small scenes. For his studio classes he charged $3 per month. He moved to Dallas in 1889, when offered $100 a month to teach. After his father-in-law died in 1896, he returned to San Antonio where he remained except for a trip to St. Louis in 1899 to try commercial painting on tile. Not ambitious, not robust, not careful in signing his paintings, he received commissions for hundreds of portraits without being able to earn a suitable living. Even his epic "Davy...

Medium: Watercolor and Gouache on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 31.00" x 12.00", Framed 36.00" x 18.00" Hoot Mon, Life Magazine Cover...

Signed lower right and dated 1917 Overall size in original Newcomb Macklin frame 27.5 x 31.25 in.

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Magazine cover: Woman with hat boxes. Francis Xavier Leyendecker, like his older brother, Joseph, was a talented illustrator. Bo...

Date: 1919 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 24.00" x 36.00" Signature: Signed and Dated 'Dean / Corn / well '19' (Lower Right) This work was originally used as an illustratio...

Date: 1919 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 26.00" x 40.00" Signature: Signed and Dated illustrated: JVJ Publishing, Jim Vadeboncoeur; The Vadeboncoeur Collection of Images...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Indistinctly Sight Size 40.00" x 30.00", Framed 46.00" x 36.00" All Around Magazine, Dec 1915. #872 in N.C. Wyeth Catalouge Raisonne 2008 This rare pulp painting by Wyeth was originally published as the cover illustration for "The Return of the Four" by Edwin Bliss, All Around Magazine, December, 1915. The painting was reproduced as catalog no. 872 in N.C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Brandywine River Museum, 2008. Notes: NEWELL CONVERS WYETH (American, 1882-1945) The Return of the Four, All Around Magazine, pulp cover, December 1915 Oil on canvas 40 x 30 in. Signed indistinctly This rare pulp painting by Wyeth was originally published as the cover illustration for "The Return of the Four" by Edwin Bliss, All Around Magazine, December, 1915. The painting was reproduced as catalog no. 872 in N.C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Brandywine River Museum, 2008. PROVENANCE: Graham Gallery, New York; Private Collection. EXHIBITED: Graham Gallery, New York. Artist biographical notes: N. C. Wyeth produced over 300 illustrations for hundreds of articles, books, posters, and magazine covers. In 1911, he was accepted by Scribner's to illustrate such classics as "Treasure Island, " The Last of the Mohicans...

Howard Watch ad illustration. Born in Germany, Francis Xavier Leyendecker was very competent, but was always overshadowed by his older brother. Franc...

Appeared on the front page of the February 1918 issue of Every Week Magazine. A man looking at a map while smoking a pipe. Signed Lower Right.

Date: 1915 Medium: Watercolor, Gouache and Charcoal on Board Dimensions: 26.25" x 16.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left LITERATURE Louisa May Alcott,...

Date: 1911 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 30.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right

Date: 1912 Medium: Oil on Canvas Sight Size 18.50" x 12.50", Framed 27.50" x 21.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left July 1912 Woman's Home Companion Magazine Cover

Date: 1918 Medium: Gouache on Board Dimensions: 30.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Boys, My Sister From the East, American Magazine illustration, April 1918

Cover of Good Housekeeping magazine, January 1915. Image of woman in rocking chair with yarn. One of the first master illustrators. Created the de...

Signed lower right. Complemented by a period frame. William L. Lathrop (1859-1938) Deemed “Father of the New Hope Art Colony”, William Langson Lathrop was born in Warren, Illinois. He was largely self-taught, having only studied briefly with William Merritt Chase in 1887, at the Art Students League. Lathrop first moved east in the early 1880s, and took a job at the Photoengraving Company in New York City. While there, he befriended a fellow employee, Henry B. Snell. The two men became lifelong friends and ultimately, both would be considered central figures among the New Hope Art Colony. Lathrop's early years as an artist were ones of continuing struggle. His efforts to break through in the New York art scene seemed futile, so he scraped enough money together to travel to Europe with Henry Snell in1888. There he met and married an English girl, Annie Burt. Upon returning to New York, he tried his hand at etching, making tools from old saw blades...

Date: 1917 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 32.00" x 21.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Story illustration: Group of people gathered around seated old woman. “Isn't it quite as i...

Early 20th Century oil painting of The First Church of Christ Scientist Boston, Massachusetts by Henrietta Dunn Mears (American,1877-1970), 1917. Presented in a giltwood frame. Sign...

Approximate Date: 1915 Medium: Pen and Ink on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Dimensions: 22.00" x 20.00" Story Illustration- Life Magazine ca. ...

Advertisement Three boys swimming signed lower left.

Date: 1918 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 31.00" x 24.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left From the Collection of James "Rip" Collins, former member of the Gashouse Gang.

Initialed lower right 'K.I.' for Kraesten Iversen (Danish, 1886 - 1955) and painted circa 1915. Born in Copenhagen in 1886, Kraesten Iversen first studied with Hendrik Gronvold at ...

Date: 1918 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 13.00" x 14.00" Signature: Unsigned 1921 Hearst International, The Torrent. Nicknamed "The Dean of Illustrators" by his peers. A cartoonist at 18 for Louisville Herald. By 1911 he was in the Chicago Tribune's Art department while studying at the city's Art Institute. In 1915, a student of Harvey Dunn, he in turn taught artists and developed talents for a generation. Oils for Cosmopolitan, Redbook, True, American Weekly, Life, Good Housekeeping. Book art for Man from Galilee and others. Ad contracts for GM, Eastern, Pennsylvania Railroad, Paul Jones Whiskey, Aunt...

Date: 1915 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 40.00" x 28.00" Cream of Wheat ad

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Harper's Monthly, 1917.

Date: 1912 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 19.00" x 36.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left

Oil on wooden panel by the Spanish artist, Thomas Campuzano y Aguirre. Seated man on a large rock with a hat with a woman with basket standing close by. Circa 1910. In very good o...

Date: 1918 Medium: Oil on Mounted Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Dimensions: 24.70" x 18.20" Illustration from “The Fire Flinger’s” written by William J. Neidig, featured ...

Date: 1919 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 35.50" x 23.00" Signature: Signed Story illustration: “Painless Extraction”, author: Octavus Roy Cohen, Saturday Evening Post, March...

Date: 1913 Medium: Gouache on Paper Dimensions: 19.75" x 14.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right Original 1913 Motor Age Magazine Cover Art Illustrati...

Medium: Gouache on Paper Signature: Unsigned Dimensions: Diameter is 12.50" Illustration, image of red-haired woman in black dress holding a violet feather.

"Female Nude in a Studio" circa 1910. 19 X 13 1/2 inches, oil on wood panel. Etched signature lower right. Well listed Hungarian artist. Spent his student years under the guidance o...

Wonderful flowers and stone steps, Nantucket, a rare watercolor painting by New York and Nantucket artist Jane Brewster Reid (American, 1862-1966). Presented in a giltwood frame. Sig...

An illustrator working in a painterly, narrative style as N. C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Dean Cornwell from the Golden Age Of Illustration. Surface quality is post impressionist with hea...

Signed lower right. A prominent landscape and marine painter, Jules Eugène Pages spent most of his career in France where he was a well-known Impressionist painter, but he mainta...

Illustration of a couple. "The farmer crossed the plowed strip to Saxon, and joined her on the rail." Ink, watercolor, and gouache on board. 991x749 mm; 39x29 1/2 inches. Signed in full, lower left. Illustration for the first appearance of Jack London's novel "The Valley of the Moon," Cosmopolitan Magazine...

Artist: Alfred Oliver, British (1886 - 1921) Title: A Pair of Pheasants in Sussex Landscape Year: circa 1910 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: ...

Henry R. Rittenberg, a native of Libau, Latvia, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and continued to live and work in Philadelphia and New York for the majority of his ca...

William Dennis was a landscape painter based in Nottingham, England. Known for his impressionistic, pastoral landscape paintings, Dennis painted mostly in oil, capturing the rural sc...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Date: 1918 Signature: Unsigned Dimensions: 26.00" x 14.00" Fashion Illustration, Fall: 1918

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned The finished painting of this illustration was featured on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, ...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed lower left Illustrated "New Hope for American Art" Fred Wagner (1861 - 1940) One of the earliest of the Pennsylvania...

Inlet and windmill, a watercolor painting by William Walker Alexander (Canadian, 1870-1948). Presented a giltwood frame. Signed "W.W Alexander" lower right. Inner mat has minor wear ...

Georges D'espagnat French, 1870 - 1950 Le Piège à Oiseaux Signed gdE (lower right) Oil on canvas 66 3/4 by 48 1/2 in. W/frame 70 ¾ by 52 ½ in. Born at Melun on 14th August 1870, G...

Signed lower left.

Georges d'Espagnat French, 1870 - 1950 Les Vendanges Signed gdE (lower left)  Oil on canvas 67 by 43 in. W/frame 71 by 47 in. Born at Melun on 14th August 1870, Georges d’Espagnat...

Listed Hungarian artist. Active in Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Munich, and Prague. Measures: 24 x 20 inches, oil on panel. 34 x 30 inches with period frame. Signed lower right. 'The Bea...

Date: 1917 Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board Dimensions: 13.00" x 20.75" Signature: Signed

Date: 1918 Medium: Grisaille Gouache on Illustration Board Dimensions: 15.75" x 22.38" Signature: Signed Lower Right

HENRIETTE AMIARD OBERTEUFFER (1878-1962) Still Life with Fruit and Flowers, n.d. Oil on canvas 29 x 24 inches Signed at lower right: H. Amiard. Oberteuffer Period frame Henriette Amiard was born in Le Havre, France, in 1878. She studied at the Academie Julian in Paris under Benjamin Jean-Joseph Constant and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. While attending the Academie she met her future husband, American artist George Oberteuffer...

Signed and dated, lower left: "A. Lebourg 1912" Provenance: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris Exhibited: "Exposition Albert Lebourg", Galerie Georges Petit, Paris: November 1923. Lebourg’s roots were in Normandy and particularly Rouen where his painting has been appreciated since the early 1870s. His recognition in the Parisian world came with his participation in the fourth Impressionist Exhibition...

Signed lower right, 'Henry Ottmann' (French, 1877-1927) and painted circa 1915. Born in 1877 in the Loire Valley, Henri Ottmann first exhibited in the Salon de la Libre Esthétique ...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed and dated lower left. John Francis Murphy (1853 - 1921) John Francis Murphy is increasingly recognized today as one o...

Signed lower right: 'V. Qvistorff' for Victor Qvistorff (Danish, 1883-1953) and painted circa 1915. Born in Bredegaarde, Denmark, Victor Qvistorff first studied with Hans Andersen Brendekilde. Qvistorff then became a successful business-man and painted only part-time until 1931 when he dedicated himself full-time to his art. Although the author of a notable series of nude studies of his long-time model, Sally Philipsen, Qvistorff is known primarily for his marine scenes- particularly the jewel-like views of Copenhagen harbor...

(Sorry for reflections in the glass.) A fine Alexander Drysdale oil wash out of an estate here in New Orleans. A classic Drysdale in every way, of good size, in fabulous condition. ...

Very well executed American clipper ship portrait by the American marine artist, Jas Fraser. Done at the turn of the 20th century. Signed lower left. Condition is very good, no re...

Beautiful original American clipper ship portrait done by Jas Fraser at the turn of the 20th century. Signed lower left. Oil on canvas mounted on board. Condition is very good, no ...

Andre Chéronnet Champollion Meenakshi Temple Hindu Priest & Sacred Elephant Madurai, Tamil Oil on canvas Painting Dimensions: 36 x 28 inches Framed Dimensions: 44.5 x 36.5 inches Sig...

Edward Cucuel (American, 1875-1954) Summer Idle, 1918 Signed Lower Right 35 x 43 inches 43 x 51 inches with frame Born in San Francisco, Edward Cucuel was an Impressionist painter o...