{"id":18862,"date":"2025-06-07T08:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T13:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/?p=18862"},"modified":"2025-06-07T08:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T13:39:41","slug":"george-rodrigue-evergreen-lake-with-flag-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/george-rodrigue-evergreen-lake-with-flag-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Evergreen Lake with Flag 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/art\/available-paintings-cajuns\/#gallery-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18864 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Indian-Woman-with-Flag-web.jpg\" alt=\"George Rodrigue Evergreen Lake\" width=\"847\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Indian-Woman-with-Flag-web.jpg 847w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Indian-Woman-with-Flag-web-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Indian-Woman-with-Flag-web-768x907.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Indian-Woman-with-Flag-web-600x708.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><\/a><b><i data-wp-editing=\"1\"><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><b><i data-wp-editing=\"1\">Evergreen Lake with Flag<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">1989 by George Rodrigue<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Approximate size, 14 x 11 inches<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Oil on linen<br \/>\n<\/span>Signed by the artist<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/galleries\/\">Contact gallery for pricing.<\/a>\u00a0 Availability subject to change without notice.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"commentaryWrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18863 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Evergreen-Lake-photo.png\" alt=\"George Rodrigue Evergreen Lake\" width=\"187\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Evergreen-Lake-photo.png 298w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Evergreen-Lake-photo-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/>During a visit to New Mexico in 1985, George Rodrigue met an Indigenous American woman named Evergreen\u00a0Lake\u00a0(pictured).\u00a0Shortly after their meeting, Rodrigue spent an afternoon photographing Evergreen Lake and used those photographs as reference images for paintings he created during the second half of the 1980s. Evergreen Lake became a recurring female figure in his paintings like Evangeline and Jolie Blonde.In this focused portrait Rodrigue paints Evergreen Lake amongst a background that includes elements of the American flag and colors that call to mind those Rodrigue used in his landscape paintings. Evergreen Lake&#8217;s presence in Rodrigue\u2019s paintings helped to expand the visual stories his work communicated about people and their connection to land.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Evergreen Lake with Flag 1989 by George Rodrigue Approximate size, 14 x 11 inches Oil on linen Signed by the artist Contact gallery for pricing.\u00a0 Availability subject to change without notice. During a visit to New Mexico in 1985, George Rodrigue met an Indigenous American woman named Evergreen\u00a0Lake\u00a0(pictured).\u00a0Shortly after their meeting, Rodrigue spent an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":18864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-img"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Evergreen Lake with Flag 1989 - George Rodrigue Studios<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/george-rodrigue-evergreen-lake-with-flag-1989\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Evergreen Lake with Flag 1989 - George Rodrigue Studios\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Evergreen Lake with Flag 1989 by George Rodrigue Approximate size, 14 x 11 inches Oil on linen Signed by the artist Contact gallery for pricing.\u00a0 Availability subject to change without notice. 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