Category Archives: Rodrigue Video Narrative

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.

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)”

Nov 13, 2023: Join Wendy Rodrigue for the fascinating story behind George Rodrigue’s classic 1974 painting, Doc Moses, Cajun Traiteur, filmed at the Zigler Museum in Jennings, Louisiana.   These video narratives, filmed by Douglas Magnus, spotlight George Rodrigue artworks as a free program of the Life & Legacy Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established byContinue reading “Doc Moses, Cajun Traiteur
1974 by George Rodrigue”

Nov 6, 2023: George Rodrigue (1944-2013) held a lifelong obsession with trains.  In his last years, he and Wendy drove their truck to the top of Pike’s Peak in Colorado to ride again the cog train he recalled from a childhood vacation.  They rode the Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Train two years in aContinue reading “Choo Choo Ch’Boogie, a Painting for Himself”

Nov 5, 2023: Amongst his first paintings after moving in 2001 from Louisiana to California, Rodrigue’s Tree at Sunrise evokes strong personal symbolism through its subject matter, color, and scale. This surreal diptych reflects the dawn of a new day, and for Rodrigue, in his wife Wendy and the California sunshine, the dawn of aContinue reading “Tree at Sunrise
An Imposing Diptych by George Rodrigue”