Azure worlds of Robert Julian Onderdonk (26 photos)
There is safety in numbers. And one color cannot create a picture. But if the right basis is competently played out with the help of the right accents, then the result will be pure azure delight. 
Such as the American impressionist artist Robert Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922), famous for landscapes with a predominance of blue and light blue. The painter is rightly called the “father of Texas painting.” 
William Chase. Portrait of Julian Onderdonk
The boy's father was an artist, but did not develop in this direction, but focused on teaching. Onderdonk Jr. demonstrated abilities from the age of five. And the father taught the boy and did not forbid him to develop. Although he did not encourage it, knowing about the difficulties of the material plane in a creative environment.
At the age of 19, Julian left for New York, where he studied with the leading masters of his time. I really ran into financial problems. Therefore, in parallel with painting, the artist, who started a family, had to work as an exhibition organizer.
In 1909, he returned to San Antonio and devoted himself entirely to what he wanted to write all his life. His canvases depict mighty giant oaks, dusty paths, delicate lupins connecting with the sky on the horizon.
It was this direction that brought the artist fame and commercial success and stimulated the development of painting in the southern states. 
