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Key’s Antique Cars
\n<\/i><\/b><\/span>1981 by George Rodrigue
\n<\/span>Approximate size, 30 x 40 inches
\n<\/span>Oil on canvas
\n<\/span>Signed by the artist<\/p>\n

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Key’s Antique Cars<\/em> and Untitled, Woman in Red with Thunderbird <\/em>(below) were commissioned by the same collector in the early 1980s. Unfortunately, the full story of the commission has been lost by mother nature and time. The original owners, the Keys, are deceased, and the paperwork was lost in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. We can only assume they had an outstanding collection of antique cars of which these two paintings only show a small sample. Mr. Key stands in a typical Rodrigue landscape among the oak trees with two of his prized possessions, we believe to be a Ford Model A and a Ford Model T-Touring, while his wife is portrayed in the other landscape standing next to a mid-1950s white Thunderbird.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear that while the couple may have been friends with the artist, Rodrigue must have been quite pleased with the commission on another level. His love of cars started when he was very young, fascinated by the 1950s in general and the wildly popular \u201957 Chevy. He even laughed at his childhood humiliation, when in 1953 his mama was afraid to floor her \u201949 DeSoto therefore holding up traffic on Pike\u2019s Peak. This love of cars continued through adulthood; a \u201962 Corvair carried Rodrigue back and forth on Route 66 between New Iberia, Louisiana and the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles while in school. After returning home to pursue his career as an artist, he had his \u201cdream cars\u201d, a number of which he ultimately did own.<\/p>\n

He once described his passion in this way: \u201cI rarely get depressed, but when I do, I buy a car. It\u2019s not the car that cheers me up, but rather figuring out how to pay for it. The challenge pulls me out of the dumps\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\"George<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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Untitled, Woman in Red with Thunderbird
\n<\/i><\/b><\/span>1981 by George Rodrigue
\n<\/span>Approximate size, 24 x 36 inches
\n<\/span>Oil on canvas
\n<\/span>Signed by the artist<\/p>\n

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