Julian Onderdonk
1882-1922
Low Tide - Long Island Sound
Signed Julian Onderdonk (lr) ; inscribed as titled and signed Julian Onderdonk on the reverse
Oil on board
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches
In 1901, Julian Onderdonk left his native Texas to study art in New York, initially at the Art Students League and in the summer at the Shinnecock Summer Art School in Southampton, run by William Merritt Chase. The experience was invigorating for him, and he responded enthusiastically to Chase"s plein air approach, writing to his family, "I am very glad you want me to go to the summer school for I was crazy to go for I feel I could do better there than in a blamed old cast room. I long to get out in the open air with my palette in one hand and brush in the other and be able to smear paint over the whole canvas."
His financial resources exhausted, Julian"s formal artistic education ceased. He remained in New York, supporting himself by painting, and, from 1906, organizing art exhibitions for the Dallas Sta