Announcing the Life & Legacy Fall Tour, celebrating the life and art of George Rodrigue! Please join me on a journey of ‘slow art,’ as we use George’s inspiring story and original paintings to explore the mysterious and mystical, the intuitive and emotional, and always, the beauty and joy of this precious life. -pictured: at Loranger ElementaryContinue reading “Fall 2019 Life & Legacy Tour”
Category Archives: Musings of an Artist’s Wife
Louisiana Lawyers Go West
Turquoise Hill with its ancient turquoise mine is an enchanting place —spiritual, timeless, mysterious, and breathtaking in its beauty. George and I visited many times over the years, beginning in the early 1990s. We were guests of history, nature, and the mine’s incomparable owner and steward, George’s dear friend and now my husband, Douglas Magnus.Continue reading “Louisiana Lawyers Go West”
Ursuline-Cool! George Rodrigue Life & Legacy Visits the Historic New Orleans School
It was 1994, for my cousin’s wedding, when I last visited Ursuline Academy. That I forgot their magnificent church, The National Shrine of Our Lady of Prompt Succor, confounds me. This spring on the George Rodrigue Life & Legacy Tour, I stood both transfixed and transported within this glorious temple to God and women andContinue reading “Ursuline-Cool! George Rodrigue Life & Legacy Visits the Historic New Orleans School”
Five Years and a Library
It was five years ago tonight that George looked at me for the last time. His eyes were bright and beautiful and child-like in their curiosity and faith. For a long time, I struggled to remember anything but those last twenty-four hours. I couldn’t get past that look, and especially my own fear that theContinue reading “Five Years and a Library”
Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art – Extended!
There’s no doubt that if George Rodrigue were here today, he would have painted for his current exhibition at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art. We talked about it some fifteen years ago as we watched the museum under construction, and again as we attended its opening exhibitions. He dreamed of showing his work in thisContinue reading “Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art – Extended!”