Every day you wake up and go through your notes and writings and remember what was important to you and what was important to me. And you see what you have…an outline of what you recorded already, all of these vignettes of all the things we talked about. That will help you live, because allContinue reading “George Rodrigue: Painting for Myself at MONA
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George Rodrigue: Painting for Myself at MONA
The River is the Road:
Paintings by George Rodrigue
June 17 – October 29, 2023 West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen, Louisiana Now Open at the West Baton Rouge Museum! This first of its kind exhibition traces 45 years of the river in Rodrigue’s paintings, exploring the unique ways Rodrigue used the river as a reference to his Cajun heritage, and ultimately as aContinue reading “The River is the Road:
Paintings by George Rodrigue
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Carnival in the Nation’s Capital:
The Washington Mardi Gras Ball
October 18, 2022-September 16, 2023 Capitol Park Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana As part of this group exhibition, experience George Rodrigue’s paintings and memorabilia related to the Washington Mardi Gras Ball, including his reign as King of the Mystick Krewe of Louisianians in 1994. Learn more at https://www.louisianastatemuseum.org/exhibitions Also on view, Rodrigue’s portrait and sketch of KingContinue reading “Carnival in the Nation’s Capital:
The Washington Mardi Gras Ball”
Art of George Rodrigue:
Shiny Happy Blue Dog
Nov 17, 2018 – Feb 17, 2019 Sand Springs Cultural and Historical Museum, Sand Springs, OK Featuring 20 large works on metal. These vibrant, late works are more shiny than mirrored, with colors so bright and intense that they don’t duplicate in photographs. Learn the story behind these dynamic pieces HERE. Wendy Rodrigue describes theContinue reading “Art of George Rodrigue:
Shiny Happy Blue Dog”
George Rodrigue: The Cajun Landscape
November 1, 2018–February 10, 2019 LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA This incredible exhibition of early Rodrigue landscapes is a delightful surprise to fans only familiar with Rodrigue’s iconic Blue Dog. These early works illustrate how the young artist broke his canvas down into three elements — tree, ground, and sky — discovering thatContinue reading “George Rodrigue: The Cajun Landscape”
Rodrigue’s Blue Dog:
Discovering Late Works on Canvas and Metal
June 12, 2018 – October 6, 2018 Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS Featuring twenty-five original artworks, many from the last year of George Rodrigue’s life, and never before on public view. CLICK HERE to read about this dynamic exhibition of late Rodrigue works.
Clifton Chenier (1985) by George Rodrigue
Jan 1, 2024: “He inspired me,” said George Rodrigue, when I interviewed him in the summer of 2012 about his 1985 portrait of Zydeco legend Clifton Chenier. “Still does. He didn’t curl up and let his disease stop him, even after losing a foot to diabetes. He kept on playing.” Following his cancer diagnosis inContinue reading “Clifton Chenier (1985) by George Rodrigue”
Take a look back at 2023
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”
“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)”