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Robert Jenkins Onderdonk invoked the example of his teacher William Merritt Chase in his still lifes, perhaps his most successful type of painting. While living in Dallas in the early 1890s when he was establishing an art school there, Robert Jenkins Onderdonk made his living from his highly decorative still lifes, his thick applications of paint effectively wedding Chase's Munich-style brushwork—which he would have imparted to his first students, Onderdonk among them—with the master's own early choice of subject matter.
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Rudolph, William Keyse, A. Kate Sheerin, Chloe Barnett, and Julian Onderdonk. Julian Onderdonk: American Impressionist. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2008, 18.
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c. 1900
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RJO born in Catonsville MD died San Antonio worked San Antonio
headed Art Student's League in Dallas from 1889-96
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Place of origin: Dallas (Texas/United States): TGN: 7013503
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From 1904: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, gift of Edwin J. Kiest [1]
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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- Robert Jenkins Onderdonk's son Julian and daughter Eleanor also became painters both of whom are represented in Dallas Museum of Art's permanent collection.
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General Description
Robert Jenkins Onderdonk invoked the example of his teacher William Merritt Chase in his still lifes, perhaps his most successful type of painting. While living in Dallas in the early 1890s when he was establishing an art school there, Robert Jenkins Onderdonk made his living from his highly decorative still lifes, his thick applications of paint effectively wedding Chase's Munich-style brushwork—which he would have imparted to his first students, Onderdonk among them—with the master's own early choice of subject matter.
Adapted from
Rudolph, William Keyse, A. Kate Sheerin, Chloe Barnett, and Julian Onderdonk. Julian Onderdonk: American Impressionist. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2008, 18.
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- Robert Jenkins Onderdonk's son Julian and daughter Eleanor also became painters both of whom are represented in Dallas Museum of Art's permanent collection.
Notes
c. 1900
Object File Reviewed
Checked Piction
RJO born in Catonsville MD died San Antonio worked San Antonio
headed Art Student's League in Dallas from 1889-96
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Place of origin: Dallas (Texas/United States): TGN: 7013503
Process/materials
Oil on panel
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
From 1904: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, gift of Edwin J. Kiest [1]
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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