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.”
For the first time since 2018, Rodrigue Studios has released a new silkscreen print designed by George Rodrigue and released from his estate. My Life is Full of Sunshine is a silkscreen by George Rodrigue, designed in 2013, printed in 2019, numbered edition of 150, including the Rodrigue Estate Stamp, measures […]
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.
