American Art Collaborative

This small autumnal scene was probably painted directly from nature. It was painted when San Antonio-born Julian Onderdonk was working in and around New York City after studying with William Merritt Chase at the Shinnecock Summer School on Long Island. The work almost certainly depicts a forest area around Arrochar Park, Staten Island, where Onderdonk and his young family had moved in 1902, before their eventual return to Texas in 1909.