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He spent much of his time in New York as the very definition of a starving artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eJulian Onderdonk: The Lost Years, the Lost Paintings\u003c\/em\u003e, James Graham Baker explores the artist's New York years, so often neglected by previous scholars. Through painstaking research, Baker reveals that Onderdonk painted hundreds of images under pseudonyms during his time in New York. These images not only reveal the means by which the artist struggled to make ends meet but add another dimension to our understanding of the artist's oeuvre. It is not possible to appreciate and understand Julian Onderdonk and his art without including these works. Largely composed of landscapes and marine scenes depicting the vanishing rural areas and shorelines around New York City, they show that Onderdonk was more than simply a \"bluebonnet painter.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy James Graham Baker (Author), J.P. Bryan (Foreword). 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Old admirers of Lea's talents will delight in this presentation, and a whole new generation will be awed by the unique contribution he has made.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Southwesterner from multicultural El Paso, Lea gave new vision to the misunderstood lands often thought of as barren wastes. As Kathleen G. Hjerter says in her foreword, in his paintings \"the desert's melded colors are vibrant under many subtle gradations of light; the mesas and mountains reach up to a sky enormous enough to hold everyone's soul.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut it is not just the southwest, its life and lore that Lea knew. Any subject he portrayed in pictures or words (he wrote several outstanding books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Wonderful Country\u003c\/em\u003e) he first researched minutely. Thus, he brought marvelous detail to his portrayal of the Mexican bullfighter, the Australian ranches and Texas cattle of the King empire, and the Indians, pioneers, and ranch hands of his own corner of the world. In the Second World War, as an artist-correspondent for \u003cem\u003eLife\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, he captured both the weaponry and the emotions of war. On assignment in China he developed a love for that land that gave him not only many subjects for paintings but also his favorite and, in later years, most characteristic medium: Chinese ink applied with a fine brush.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn China, too, he came to know the ideogram whose symbols became for him, in William Weber Johnson's words, a \"sort of personal artistic trinity\": the earth, the sky, and man between man linked very urgently and simply with cosmos, nature as the catalyst. 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His curiosity led to an idea for a photographic essay, published by the Chronicle, and this in turn resulted in an exhibit at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station of his “flagotography.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePaired with Deering’s lively captions recording the circumstances and locations of these uniquely Texan creations as well as former Chronicle colleague Ruth Rendon’s introduction of Deering and his work, these striking photographs capture Texans’ infectious enjoyment of their state symbol on land, on water, and in the air.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLovin’ That Lone Star Flag\u003c\/i\u003e will bring a smile to your face. 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His students include a “Who’s Who” of twentieth-century Texas painters: Alexandre Hogue, Reveau Bassett, and Lucretia Coke, among others. He was an advocate of painting by observation, and encouraged his students to do the same by organizing legendary sketch trips to West Texas. Reaugh also earned the title of Renaissance man by inventing a portable easel that allowed him to paint in high winds, and developing a formula for pastels, which he marketed. A founder of the Dallas Art Society, which became the Dallas Museum of Art, Reaugh was central to Dallas and Oak Cliff artistic circles for many years until infighting and politics drove him out of fashion. He died isolated and poor in 1945.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe last decade has seen a resurgence of interest in Reaugh, through gallery shows, exhibitions, and a recent documentary. 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This poignant and vivid record of the great mansions and public buildings of the historic island city by the late Houston architect is credited as being a catalyst in the preservation and restoration movement in Galveston.”—Houston Chronicle“This beautiful picture book about nineteenth-century Galveston architecture is also a book about how Galveston’s historic buildings were saved.”—Historic Preservation“The compelling power of The Galveston That Was comes from both Barnstone’s text and the photographs by Cartier-Bresson and Stoller. . . . The Galveston That Was probes the present on the same level as the past. 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