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,
“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.”
Mardi Gras Dog (30th Anniversary), designed in 1991 by George Rodrigue, is a stone lithograph printed in Paris, France in 2021. This Estate Edition of 90 measures 28 x 22 inches and is available for purchase from Rodrigue Studios or online. In 1984, George Rodrigue painted thirty canvases to be […]
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.
