
Robert Jenkins Onderdonk (1852-1917) and Robert Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922) were two of Texas’ most celebrated artists in the early 20th century.
Onderdonk worked as a portraitist, but also painted landscape scenes, and is best known today for his painting Fall of the Alamo (1903), which today hangs at the Governor’s Mansion. His son Julian followed in his father’s footsteps, training around the turn of the century with William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League, prior to returning to Texas to become the state’s first prominent Impressionist landscape painter.
The lecture by Emily Neff, Ph.D., the Kelso Director of the San Antonio Museum of Art, will focus on the impact of both Robert and Julian Onderdonk on the development of the visual arts in Texas and the ways in which national trends came to the Lone Star State.
Robert Jenkins Onderdonk (1852-1917) and Robert Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922) were two of Texas’ most celebrated artists in the early 20th century.
Onderdonk worked as a portraitist, but also painted landscape scenes, and is best known today for his painting Fall of the Alamo (1903), which today hangs at the Governor’s Mansion. His son Julian followed in his father’s footsteps, training around the turn of the century with William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League, prior to returning to Texas to become the state’s first prominent Impressionist landscape painter.
The lecture by Emily Neff, Ph.D., the Kelso Director of the San Antonio Museum of Art, will focus on the impact of both Robert and Julian Onderdonk on the development of the visual arts in Texas and the ways in which national trends came to the Lone Star State.
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