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
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Rodrigue at the Hilliard Art Museum
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″
Clinton and Gore, 1996 by George Rodrigue
Hilliard Art Museum Film 5 of 6
June 11, 2024: Commissioned by the Democratic National Committee, George Rodrigue’s “Walking Into the 21st Century” (1996) was the official inaugural poster for the second Clinton/Gore term. Join Wendy Rodrigue at the Hilliard Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana for a closer look at this historic Rodrigue American portrait. Filmed by Douglas Magnus for the LifeContinue reading “Clinton and Gore, 1996 by George Rodrigue
Hilliard Art Museum Film 5 of 6″
Clifton Chenier (1985) by George Rodrigue
Hilliard Art Museum
Jun 1, 2024: “He inspired me,” said George Rodrigue, when I interviewed him 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 in May 2012, Rodrigue painted theContinue reading “Clifton Chenier (1985) by George Rodrigue
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