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...
Three Coins in the Fountain is a triptych comprised of Red, Yellow, and Purple silkscreen editions designed by George Rodrigue in 2003 and produced in 2020. These Estate Editions of 100 measure 12 x 12 inches each and are available for purchase as a Triptych set (SOLD OUT) or individually as...
NEW SILKSCREEN RELEASE The Other Side of Life is a silkscreen designed by George Rodrigue in 2002 and produced in 2020. This Estate Edition of 150 measures 20 x 16 inches and is available for purchase from Rodrigue Studios or online. The sun has always been a key element of...
New George Rodrigue 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: My Life is Full of Sunshine (detail), 2013, Acrylic on linen, 20×24, Private collection – Also available as an Estate Stamped Silkscreen
On June 19, 2020, in Dallas, Texas, at Heritage Auction’s Modern & Contemporary Art event, a George Rodrigue Blue Dog painting broke records for the auction house and worldwide for a painting of its size. According to ArtDaily: One of the sale’s biggest surprises occurred early on, when it came...
For the first time since 2018, Rodrigue Studios has released a new silkscreen print designed by George Rodrigue and released from his estate. My Life is Full of Sunshine is a silkscreen by George Rodrigue, designed in 2013, printed in 2019, numbered edition of 150, including the Rodrigue Estate Stamp, measures...
Thank you again to the City of New Iberia, Louisiana, for honoring George Rodrigue! The Memorial Park is near completion! Story and image via Dwayne Fatherree of The Daily Iberian: “The site for the sculpture that will serve as the calling card of the George Rodrigue Park on Main Street...
In 1979 George Rodrigue loaned twelve of his Cajun paintings for use in Talk About Good II, a cookbook produced by the Junior League of Lafayette, Louisiana. The paintings introduce the book’s chapters and include dinner scenes, seafood preparations and Cajun characters, each complemented by Rodrigue’s brief descriptions. In 2019...