Jul 31, 2024, SANTA FE: Wendy Rodrigue reflects on Blue Dog’s explosion in popularity and her journey towards public speaking, as encouraged by her late husband George Rodrigue and his extraordinary paintings. During the 1990s and 2000s, the couple toured nationally for Abrams Books and the department store Neiman Marcus, while Wendy’s blog, “Musings ofContinue reading “Blue Dog and the Art of Storytelling”
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Rodrigue at the Hilliard Art Museum
Exhibition Highlights
The Life & Legacy Foundation was pleased to support, with paintings and research, the exhibition Sitting with George Rodrigue at the Hilliard Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana. For this exhibition, Wendy Rodrigue loaned two paintings from her private collection, plus multiple works from the George Rodrigue Family Trust. The exhibition ran from January 27 – July 13,Continue reading “Rodrigue at the Hilliard Art Museum
Exhibition Highlights”
JUL 29, 2024
Santa Fe, NM
July 29, 2024, 12:30 – 4 pm, $99 Blue Dog and the Healing Art of Storytelling Four Seasons Resort Santa Fe, New Mexico Register Course number : 4000108 ID : 4801 Wendy Rodrigue Magnus, widow of artist George Rodrigue, presents a personal and provocative session utilizing art and storytelling as tools for expanded thinking, emotional growth, andContinue reading “JUL 29, 2024
Santa Fe, NM”
SEPT 19, 2024
Santa Fe, NM
September 19, 2024, 1- 4 pm, $59 DREAM BIG!: George Rodrigue Exhibition Tour Santa Fe Community College Visual Arts GallerySanta Fe, New Mexico Register Course number : 4000112 ID : 4999 Join Wendy Rodrigue at Santa Fe Community College, in SFCC’s Visual Art Gallery, for a personal tour of the exhibition, DREAM BIG!: Paintings by George Rodrigue.Continue reading “SEPT 19, 2024
Santa Fe, NM”
SEPT 26, 2024
Santa Fe, NM
September 26, 2024, 1- 4 pm, $59 (under 18 free) Blue Dog: An Art Adventure for Families Santa Fe Community College Visual Arts Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico Register Course number : 4000111 ID : 4998 Meet in SFCC’s Visual Art Gallery for an engaging afternoon surrounded by original paintings by American artist George Rodrigue (1944-2013), famousContinue reading “SEPT 26, 2024
Santa Fe, NM”
Portrait of Rosalea Murphy
by George Rodrigue, 1987
Join Wendy Rodrigue as she recalls artist George Rodrigue’s history in Santa Fe, New Mexico, including his friendship with Rosalea Murphy, founder of the beloved Pink Adobe Restaurant, established July 9, 1944. Filmed at the Four Seasons Resort, Santa Fe, as part of Wendy’s lecture series for Santa Fe Community College Continuing Education, made possibleContinue reading “Portrait of Rosalea Murphy
by George Rodrigue, 1987″
Father Avery Dulles (1991)
by George Rodrigue
Hilliard Art Museum, Film 6/6
June 28, 2024: “There is a spiritual quality to BLUE.” -George Rodrigue Join Rodrigue’s widow, Wendy, at the Hilliard Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana, for a closer look at this mystical Rodrigue portrait, painted in 1991 for the Flora Levy Lecture Series at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Filmed by Douglas Magnus for theContinue reading “Father Avery Dulles (1991)
by George Rodrigue
Hilliard Art Museum, Film 6/6″