Born and raised in southwest Louisiana, “Cajun Country,” George Rodrigue preserved on his canvas what he feared was his dying heritage — including its land, people, traditions and mythology. It was a Cajun legend, the loup-garou, that spawned his most famous series,
“I grew up feeling a strong relationship to the old things, to the old culture, and I got a stronger feeling when I went to Los Angeles to school. I really started to understand how different I was and how different my Louisiana was.”
I’ve always approached painting knowing that my job is not to make an accurate representation of a subject–
IT’S GOT TO TRANSCEND THAT.
Sept 9, 2018, Louisiana Children’s Museum 1:00-3:00 pm Wendy Rodrigue enhances LCM’s “Riverworks” exhibition with original Blue Dog and Cajun Series paintings by her late husband Rivers are a running theme throughout George Rodrigue’s 45-year career. For this special visit to the Louisiana Children’s Museum, part of an ongoing Life & Legacy […]
