The beauty of Texas will be on display in Heritage’s Texas Art Auction on November 7, 2015. One of the spotlights in the auction is Julian Onderdonk’s masterpiece Texas Landscape with Bluebonnets. It had been hidden for 40 years and never before published in color. The signature painting by a top Texas landscape artist was in private collections and make its auction debut. It could sell for over $150,000.

It will make its debut alongside the Stone Bridge in Winter, Central Park a New York scene painted by Onderdonk between 1901 and 1909.

“These two, historically important paintings were discovered by Heritage Auctions and fill in the blanks on Onderdonk’s prolific and genre-defining career,” said Atlee Phillips, Director of Texas Art at Heritage Auctions. “Other than the family that has owned it since the early 1900s, no one has seen this painting in color for 40 years. Texas Landscape with Bluebonnets is one of the three such themed paintings in this auction, which makes it a collector’s dream for lovers of Texas art.”

The Texas Landscape with Bluebonnets measures 25” x 30”, published in black and white in “A Family of Texas Painters” by scholar Cecilia Steinfeldt in 1975. Showcases the complexity of the Texas landscape beauty, juxtaposed by the crumbling rocks and spiny cactus in the foreground in an impressionistic treatment.

Two other Onderdonk bluebonnet-themed works are Bluebonnets in Spring and Bluebonnets in the Misty Morning.

Three pieces by Robert William Wood in the auction spotlight the rolling hills and vistas in Guadalupe River, Texas Spring, and Fall Landscape. An impressionistic depiction of Texas by Porfirio Salinas called Morning in the Hill Country will also be sold. Other highlights are Porch, 1950 by William Lewis Lester, Whales, 1954 by Bror Utter, and Once Upon a Time to See Ourselves, 1974 by Ancel E. Nunn.