Observatory Paintings

Julian Onderdonk "Summer Evening S. W. Texas" Texas Hill Country (1882 - 1922) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 9 x 12 Frame Size: 15 x 18 Medium: Oil on panel Dated 1909 "Summer Evening S. W. Texas" "A Texas Painter Worked Under the Radar in New York," By Eve M. Kahn, March 6, 2014, The New York Times Onderdonk, a San Antonio native who died of an intestinal ailment in 1922, at 40, is best known for painting swaths of Texas bluebonnets. Those canvases can bring more than $500,000 each, while his New York scenes usually end up in the five-figure range. Onderdonk’s parents were painters in San Antonio, and in 1901, when he was a teenager, they sent him to New York for training. Through 1909, he lived in various Manhattan apartments and Staten Island houses. He then returned to Texas, but continued to spend months at a time in New York. In 1902 he had married a Manhattan teenage neighbor, Gertrude Shipman. While she focused on raising their daughter, Adrienne, and worrying about their strained finances, “he created more than 600 works of art, often producing a painting or two a day,” Eyewitnesses recorded his prolific pace in New York, but Onderdonk works bearing those dates rarely turn up. The puzzling gap in his productivity is explained in family correspondence that the Bakers uncovered: The artist admits that he was signing pieces with pseudonyms. He mostly used Chas. Turner and Chase Turner and occasionally resorted to Elbert H. Turner and Roberto Vasquez. Julian Onderdonk was the son of the important Texas landscapist, Robert Onderdonk. He was the father's pupil at age 16. Sponsored by a Texas patron, he studied at the Art Students League in New York when he was 19, the pupil of Kenyon Cox, Frank DuMond, and Robert Henri. He also studied with William Merritt Chase on Long Island. In 1902, having lost his Texas patron because he married, he asked $18 for 12 paintings at a Fifth Avenue dealer in New...

Winter Afternoon oil on canvas panel signed LL image is 12 x 16 Here is a beautiful winter scene painted by one of my favorite artists to collect, Junius Allen, who was a former P...

Seated Female Nude Figure in Oil on Canvas Beautiful modern impressionist figure painting of a seated nude woman by George Wishon (American, 1937-2005). The two-toned light blue and...

Elkhorn Slough - California Landscape in Oil on Canvas Gorgeous oil painting landscape of Elkhorn Slough, Elkhorn, California by B. Skinner (American, 20th Century). Two cranes are ...

Mid-Century Palm Springs Landscape in Oil on Canvas Gorgeous mid-century landscape of a Palm Springs desert scene by Alice V. Hussey Hayes (American, 1907-1968). A path winds away f...

Blonde Nude Leaning on a Stool in Oil on Canvas Beautiful modern impressionist figure painting of a nude woman by bay area artist George Wishon (American, b.20th Century). A contras...

This beautiful large impressionist oil on canvas by French artist Charles Cermak was painted in the 1930's. The work depicts colourful sailing boats in a harbor on the Côte d'Azur, m...

Cui Ji, was born in Wangchin, Jirin Providence, China. His appreciation for the arts began from an artistic spark in his childhood curiosity, building into his career as a full-time ...

Woman by The Lake - Late 19th Century Figurative Landscape Gorgeous 19th Century figurative landscape of a woman by a lake looking wistfully at boaters by J. Glover (American, 19th ...

This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior. ABOUT THE ARTWORK In 'Little Woman', I reflect on the inner strengt...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1990, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - "Snow Bound" Road to the Green, Water Mill. English ...