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George Rodrigue

1944-2013. 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,

The Blue Dog.

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“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.”

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Celebrating 40 Years of Talk About Good II at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum

In 1979 George Rodrigue loaned twelve of his Cajun paintings for use in Talk About Good II, a cookbook produced by the Junior League of Lafayette, Louisiana. The paintings introduce the book’s chapters and include dinner scenes, seafood preparations and Cajun characters, each complemented by Rodrigue’s brief descriptions. In 2019 […]

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.

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After turning down multiple proposals that came ...

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After turning down multiple proposals that came his way, George Rodrigue was intrigued by one he received in 2000 from Xerox and the legendary New York Advertising firm of Young & Rubicam. Eager to work with this award-winning team, he accepted this collaboration on a worldwide advertising promotion. Given tag phrases such as “a faster breed”, “taking care of business” and “a smarter breed”, Rodrigue painted more than twenty canvases for possible use in the print, billboard, and multi-media campaign. Among those canvases was We’re All the Same Inside, which emphasizes the fact that the Blue Dog isn’t always blue, and here appears in four toner colors of yellow, cyan, black and magenta.
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We’re All the Same Inside
2001
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 inches
Now available at Rodrigue Studio. Contact gallery for price.

For more than two decades, George Rodrigue ...

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For more than two decades, George Rodrigue combined the landscape, people, and traditions of southwest Louisiana to create scenes both imaginary and honest. Through contrasting these concepts, as well as traditional elements of artistic style, he graphically interpreted the Cajun culture in a highly personal way. Rodrigue’s French-Cajun mother often recounted the legend of the loup-garou, a crazy wolf that frightened children into minding their parents. He first painted it in 1984, mimicking the shape of his deceased dog. Beneath a dark night sky, Rodrigue imagined the loup-garouas grey-blue in color.

Between 1984 and 1991, Rodrigue revisited the loup-garou, an image he invented, a dozen or more times, always within dark landscapes. The paintings did not stand out to him or to others. They existed exclusively as part of his Cajun Series. Then, in 1991, in a brave and bold step, an artist well established and famous within his genre broke free. He shocked himself, his collectors, and the world with the painting Loup-garou. It was his first painting in twenty-five years that did not include the Louisiana landscape. This commanding artwork changed everything, and heavily influenced this work, Changing Moods, painted in this same year when the true Blue Dog Series began. “The Blue Dog, I realized, had to stand alone. With this image, I could take my art in a completely new direction. I could comment on life today. I could ask universal questions: ‘Where did I come from? Where am I going? What does it all mean?’ - George Rodrigue

Changing Moods
1991
Oil on canvas
14x11

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Happy Mardi Gras with King George! During the ...

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Happy Mardi Gras with King George! During the early 1980’s George often crowned himself the King of Lafayette #MardiGras and threw elaborate parties at his home and gallery for his friends and collectors. Each year, as the parade passed in front of the Rodrigue home, George would toast the other Kings. On this occasion, George’s great friend Louis Mann the “Pontiac Man” rode as King of Gabriel and George stopped the parade to give the king a present, a live chicken inside a box. Much to the dismay of the Gabrielle Krewe, when Louis opened the box and released the chicken it frantically pooped all over the King’s clothes and ruined royal garb. The families of the two Kings still love retelling the story to this day! #tbt @lafayettetravel

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I've Learned to be on Both Sides of Any Position
1996
Acrylic on Linen
24x48

George Rodrigue demonstrated his patriotism often within his paintings. Even in his first book The Cajuns of George Rodrigue (1976, Oxmoor House) he wrote, “I have a series of paintings showing the American flag to reveal the strong national pride of the Cajun. He wanted to be a part of something; he wanted a country; he wanted to be an American.” Originally painted for George Rodrigue’s Blue Dog for President Exhibition in 1996 at Union Station in Washington, DC, this painting joined several others from his Blue Dog Series highlighting the artist’s patriotic and political themes.
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George Rodrigue with his A Number One Tiger Fan ...

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George Rodrigue with his A Number One Tiger Fan painting in 2011. The work was completed in partnership with the @lsumoa for their Rodrigue retrospective exhibit on display that year. Prints of this piece benefited arts in education and continue to raise funds for non-profits through the @rodriguefoundation Print Donation Program. Good luck to @lsufootball today!

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"Chicken on the Bayou" 1986 by George Rodrigue, oil on canvas, 24x36 inches.
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"So fond was the Landry Family of their chicken, Clotile, that they commissioned this portrait of her. I call it ... The 200-pound Chicken on the Bayou!" -G.R.
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The A Number One Tiger Fan LSU Blue Dog Cow now on...

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The A Number One Tiger Fan LSU Blue Dog Cow now on display at Rodrigue Studio in New Orleans. Originally painted for Rodrigue’s retrospective exhibit at @lsumoa, this cow was one of several George painted in his career following Chicago’s Cow Parade exhibit. Good luck to LSU Monday! #geauxtigers

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"Last Night I Went Looking for Myself" 2007 by George Rodrigue, Acrylic on linen, 24x20 inches.
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Following the chaos of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, George Rodrigue’s Blue Dog entered a Dark Period. It was almost a year after the storm before George returned to his easel, and when he did, the fragmented, dark canvases indicated a strong departure from the controlled, deliberate, hard edge shapes of his earlier Blue Dog and Cajun works. These new paintings, also called The Dream Series, lack definition, as though the Blue Dog, just like the rest of George’s world, exploded into chaos and unpredictability.
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George Rodrigue with several of his early Cajun and landscape paintings, including the iconic Jolie Blonde, in this newly discovered archive photo circa 1974 #tbt

New museum exhibit celebrates the 40th Anniversary...

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New museum exhibit celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the iconic Cajun cookbook Talk About Good II!

In 1979 George Rodrigue loaned twelve of his Cajun paintings for use in Talk About Good II, a cookbook produced by the Junior League of Lafayette, Louisiana.
In 2019 we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the release of this iconic Cajun cookbook. 40 Years of Talk About Good will be the first of a new style of exhibit at the Sothern Food and Beverage Museum located in New Orleans that features both memorabilia telling the book's history and, for the first time, a group of paintings from the book displayed publicly together.
Exhibit runs through February 28, 2020.

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Happy Carnival Season with the classic painting Mardi Gras Dog, 1991, oil on canvas, 30x24 inches..
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It was in 1988 at an exhibition of his work in Los Angeles that Rodrigue first overheard the new phrase, “Blue Dog,” leaving the artist a lot to think about when he returned to his easel in Louisiana.

He experimented by changing the eyes from red to yellow and making the fur less scruffy. As Super Bowl XXIV (held in New Orleans) approached in January 1990, Rodrigue filled his Royal Street Gallery with “Blue Dogs” in an attempt to draw in the tourists filling the French Quarter. These paintings were early Blue Dogs and all with Louisiana landscapes in the background. The dog’s color was blue-grey, but still has distinguishable fur.

Mardi Gras Dog is one of these transition paintings, where the Blue Dog has not yet left the Louisiana landscape. Rodrigue painted the dog as though it were a Cajun person, a ghost at eye level, trapped within the artist's design and existing within an actual environment.

Friends and neighbors George Rodrigue and ...

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Friends and neighbors George Rodrigue and #paulprudhomme via @cbssundaymorning - Join @rodriguefoundation at @nochi_grams in #neworleans on March 12 as we celebrate these two Cajun icons. Tickets at aiolidinner.com

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Good luck to the New Orleans Saints today with Rodrigue’s “We Are Marching Again” exclusively available to non-profits through the @rodriguefoundation Print Donation Program.

Almost 30 years ago, in those pre-digital days, ...

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Almost 30 years ago, in those pre-digital days, George Rodrigue drew his silkscreen designs on tracing paper, each color on its own piece, then lined them up and, with the help of a master printer, cut the dyes and pulled the prints by hand... After all this time, Rodrigue Studio is excited to offer The Devil in Me as a silkscreen, a real reminder of printmaking as an art form.

#fbf George Rodrigue outside of his Lafayette, ...

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#fbf George Rodrigue outside of his Lafayette, Louisiana, gallery on Jefferson Street circa 1979. The gallery was originally two stories and soon after this photo was taken George raised the gallery and built a first floor under it where the Rodrigue family lived.

From the beginning there was a real challenge in ...

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From the beginning there was a real challenge in creating the dog as a sculpture, because for Rodrigue the Blue Dog only existed in two dimensions. It’s not like a dog at all; it doesn’t run, or bark and certainly doesn’t have a backside. It only exists in a specific pose and on a flat plain within a Rodrigue painting.
For years, Rodrigue was in search of a design for a sculpture that would stand on its own while retaining the strong, well-defined Blue Dog shape. By the late 1990s, the idea of a Blue Dog sculpture because almost a daily part of Rodrigue’s creative process. He toyed with multiple ideas, until, one evening while absentmindedly folding cocktail napkins in a restaurant, it came to him. Pinching together three napkins with his fingers, he balanced them on one edge, holding the concave arches between his fingers. He realized each side would be dog-front (and no backside), and the feet would match up at the bottom. He created these three-sided sculptures in aluminum, painted them with acrylic paint along with automotive paint and sealer. Over the years, he produced this sculpture in three-foot, six-foot, and eight-foot heights, as well as one which stands twenty-eight feet overlooking Veterans Memorial Boulevard in New Orleans.

Happy New Year from Rodrigue Studios!
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Happy New Year from Rodrigue Studios!
Pictured: "Midnight Surprise" 2000 by George Rodrigue, 20x16 inches, original silkscreen

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Happy New Year from Rodrigue Studios with George Rodrigue’s “The Whole Year Was Blue” 2004, silkscreen, 32x48, edition of 20.

In 2010, George Rodrigue built his dream gallery ...

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In 2010, George Rodrigue built his dream gallery in New Orleans in one of the most historic buildings in the French Quarter.

For the first time, the space is available for entertaining as we continue to share the life and art of George Rodrigue.
Adjacent to the St. Louis Cathedral with newly renovated second floor gallery space featuring wrap-around balcony view of both Royal Street and St. Louis Cathedral’s Botanical Gardens.

One of the “most New Orleans” venues in the heart of the French Quarter perfect for any group.

Learn more and download our Guide to Entertaining at Rodrigue Studio at link in bio.

Good luck to the @lsufootball team today! In 2003,...

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Good luck to the @lsufootball team today! In 2003, George Rodrigue painted LSU’s Mike the Tiger reclining in one of the artist’s signature Louisiana landscapes. Prints of the image originally raised enough funds to complete construction of the tiger’s world-class new habitat.

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