born 1944 in New Iberia, LA
died 2013 in Houston, TX
University of Southwest Louisiana (Now ULL), Lafayette, LA
Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA
2023 | Envisioning the South: The Roger Ogden Collection, Hilliard Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
The River is the Road: Paintings by George Rodrigue, West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen, LA Written in the Stars: Celebrating 100 Louisiana Luminaries, Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge, LA |
2022 | Carnival in the Nation’s Capitol: The Washington Mardi Gras Ball, Capitol Park Museum, Baton Rouge, LA |
2021 | Evangeline: Evolution of an Icon, West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen, LA |
2018 | Rodrigue’s Blue Dog: Discovering Late Works on Canvas and Metal, Our-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
George Rodrigue: The Cajun Landscape, LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA |
2017 | Rodrigue Comes Home: Shiny Happy Blue Dog, Bayou Teche Museum, New Iberia, LA |
2016 | The Art of George Rodrigue: A Retrospective, Longview Museum of Art, Longview, TX |
2012 | Blue Dogs in Texas, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX |
2011 | Blue Dogs and Cajuns on the River, LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA |
2010 | George Rodrigue: Images of Home, Hilliard Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Lafayette, LA |
2009 | Blue Dog: The Process of Prints and George Rodrigue: Legends and Lives Acadiana, Acadiana Center of the Arts, Lafayette, LA |
2008 | Rodrigue’s Louisiana: Forty Years of Cajuns, Blue Dogs, and Beyond Katrina, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA |
2007 | Blue Dog: The Art of George Rodrigue, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN |
2004 | George Rodrigue Retrospective Exhibition, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL |
1996 | Blue Dog for President, Union Station, Washington, DC |
1989 | George Rodrigue, Upstairs Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA |
1988 | Moscow Summit, Moscow, USSR |
1983 | The Kingfish Painting, Senate Rotunda, Washington DC |
1974 | Le Salon, Grand Palais, Paris, France |
1970 | George Rodrigue Old State Capitol Building, Louisiana State Art Commission, Baton Rouge, LA |
1968 | George Rodrigue, Reilly Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
2015 | Rodrigue: The Sanders Collection. Foreword by Nolan Ryan. Rodrigue Studios. |
2009 | Are You Blue Dogs Friend? Text by George Rodrigue. Harry N. Abrams. |
2008 | Blue Dog Speaks. Text by George Rodrigue. Sterling Publishing.
George Rodrigue Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne 1970-2007. Foreword by E. John Bullard. Harry N. Abrams. |
2003 | The Art of George Rodrigue. Text by Ginger Santo and Michael Lewis. Harry N. Abrams. |
2002 | Why is Blue Dog Blue? Text by George Rodrigue. Harry N. Abrams. |
1999 | Blue Dog Man. Foreword by Tom Brokaw. Stewart, Tabori & Chang. |
1995 | George Rodrigue: A Cajun Artist. Text by Lawrence S. Freundich. Viking Press. |
1994 | Blue Dog. Text by Lawrence S. Freudich and George Rodrigue. Viking Press. |
1984 | Bayou. Text by Chris Segura, Illustrations by George Rodrigue. Inkwell Publications. |
1976 | The Cajuns of George Rodrigue. Text by George Rodrigue. Oxmoor House. |
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
2000 | Commissioned by Young & Rubicam to create paintings for a Xerox Color Inkjet Printers advertising campaign |
1998 | Commissioned by Neiman Marcus to create three fiberglass Rodrigue cows for the Chicago Cow Parade |
1997 | Commissioned by the Democratic National Party to paint official Presidential Inaugural Portrait of Bill Clinton |
1996 | Commissioned by Neiman Marcus to design catalogue cover for The Book (Butterflies are Free) |
1995 | Commissioned by New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to paint Louis Armstrong. |
1993 | Commissioned by Michel Roux and Absolut Vodka to create Absolut Rodrigue and Absolut Louisiana ads |
1988 | Commissioned by the Republican Party to paint Vice-President George H W Bush and his grandchildren |
1986 | Commissioned by the Republican Party to paint a portrait of President Ronald Reagan |