Islands in the Stream 2000 by George Rodrigue 36 x 48 inches Acrylic on canvas Location: New Orleans Reference: Rodrigue, George and Wendy Rodrigue. Blue Dog Love. Editted by David McAninch. Published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang NY. (2001). p. 43. From 1990 on, the Red Dog made appearances in Rodrigue’s paintings — sometimes...
Heart and Soul, designed in 2012 by George Rodrigue, is a newly released print in 2021. This Estate Edition of 150 measures 24 x 18 inches and is available for purchase from Rodrigue Studios or online. Note: This silkscreen is “full bleed” meaning the image and paper size are the...
Above everything else, George Rodrigue had fun with his art. In 2000, he told Bryant Gumbel of CBS that he thought combining the strong image of the Blue Dog with those strong graphic images that surrounded Christmas, would be fun. The result was 22 silkscreen prints that depicted the Blue...
Forever Blue 1994 by George Rodrigue 20 x 24 inches Oil on linen Location: New Orleans By the late 1960s, the famous above-ground tombs and cemeteries of Louisiana had become a common subject matter in George Rodrigue’s art. As he began to incorporate the Cajun people into his landscapes, Rodrigue...
West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen, LA Evangeline: Evolution of an Icon May 15, 2021 – October 31, 2021 Located in South Louisiana the West Baton Rouge Museum will host the exhibition Evangeline: Evolution of an Icon, highlighting George Rodrigue’s depiction of Evangeline both in his Cajun and Blue...
All for One, One for All, designed in 2011 by George Rodrigue, is a newly released print in 2021. This Estate Edition of 90 measures 22 x 28 inches and is available for purchase from Rodrigue Studios or online. The painting All for One, One for All (2011) is...
New Blue Dog wall calendar features colorful bold, contemporary paintings by George Rodrigue! Available at your local bookseller, our Lafayette or New Orleans Galleries, or online here. Cover painting: Star-Hopping (detail), 2001, Acrylic on canvas, 48×36, Private collection
The Blue Dog head is the focal point of this simple, yet striking painting. Rodrigue often said, “you can’t take a Blue Dog from one painting and put it into another…the colors won’t work.” Painted in 1993, Top Dog is now viewed as a precursor to the paintings created during...
Country horse racing was a major sport in South Louisiana, and Rodrigue painted a large series of racing paintings in the early part of his career. In Cajun country the horses raced around coulees, gullies, bridges and under bridges, whereas only the professional country races were run around a track....
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...