Abbreviated CV

GEORGE RODRIGUE

born 1944 in New Iberia, LA
died 2013 in Houston, TX

 

EDUCATION

University of Southwest Louisiana (Now ULL), Lafayette, LA
Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

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

 

SELECTED BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

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.

 

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

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

 

SELECTED COMMISSIONS

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