Category Archives: Rodrigue Video Narrative

Mar 20, 2024: Join Wendy Rodrigue for an introduction to Sitting with George Rodrigue currently on view at the Hilliard Art Museum on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana. Filmed by Douglas Magnus for the Life & Legacy Foundation, this video is the first of six in a specialContinue reading “George Rodrigue at the Hilliard Art Museum
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Wendy Rodrigue’s opening remarks during a new exhibition of her late husband’s paintings at the Carnegie Visual Arts Center in Decatur, Alabama. During the pre-opening week, Wendy lead school tours of the exhibition, hosting 800 children, plus families, educators, and community groups. George Rodrigue: The River is the Road continues through April 7, 2024. SponsoredContinue reading ““George Rodrigue: The River is the Road” at the Carnegie Visual Arts Center”

Jan 13, 2024: The story behind George Rodrigue’s iconic 1978 painting of antiques dealer, Rodney Fontenot, the Ragin’ Cajun of Ville Platte, Louisiana.  See the original painting on view at the Hilliard Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, home of the Ragin’ Cajuns, as part of their exhibition, “Sitting with George Rodrigue,”Continue reading “Ragin’ Cajun (1978) 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”

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.