The numbers are in! 2023 was our BIGGEST year yet! The Life & Legacy Foundation with Wendy Rodrigue brought George Rodrigue’s original art and compelling story to six states — Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Florida, New Hampshire and New Mexico! This included 47 in person presentations to students at 19 schools, plus summer camps and afterContinue reading “Take a look back at 2023”
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2023 Year End Recap
The numbers are in! 2023 was our biggest year yet, when the Life & Legacy Foundation with Wendy Rodrigue brought George Rodrigue’s original art and compelling story to six states — Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Florida, New Hampshire and New Mexico! This included 47 in person presentations to students at 19 schools, plus summer camps andContinue reading “2023 Year End Recap”
“Don’t Slow Me Down” (Unfinished) 2013
Dec 9, 2023: Rodrigue left this painting on his easel in Carmel, California, in progress prior to his last trip to a Houston, Texas hospital on October 30, 2013. Ever optimistic, he titled it Don’t Slow Me Down, after Aesop’s Fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. December 14, 2023 marks the tenth anniversary of Rodrigue’s death.
Eat, Drink and Forget the Blues
(Aioli Dinner Dog)
George Rodrigue’s first painting with people is his Aioli Dinner of 1971. The scene is an all-male gourmet dinner club that met monthly from 1890-1920 on the lawn of large homes in and around Rodrigue’s hometown of New Iberia, Louisiana. The women, standing in the back row, cooked; the young men, standing along the sides,Continue reading “Eat, Drink and Forget the Blues
(Aioli Dinner Dog)”