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.
On May 1, 2019, after 28 years, an end of an era has come to Rodrigue Studio as we say farewell to our beautiful Carmel location. As part of a new direction in expanding George Rodrigue’s legacy from a primarily commercial focus, Rodrigue Studio is reaching farther with exciting new […]
