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Musings of Heather the Great (an Artist’s Sister-in-Law)
My sister, Heather Wolfe Parker, a.k.a. 'Heather T. Great,' (her title since grade school), steps in as a guest-blogger this week- “Hello?”“Hey George! It’s your sister.”“Who?”(pictured above, my son...
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Blue Dog Glass and Other Unique Rodrigue Items
Although partial to paint on canvas, George Rodrigue experiments often with other mediums, creating the unexpected within his signature subjects. Printmaking is the most obvious other than painting,...
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My Favorite Painting
The Loup-garou is my favorite painting.I first saw it on a Sunday afternoon in 1991, a day that changed my life. I walked into the Rodrigue Gallery in the French Quarter to visit a friend, the gallery...
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Gator Aid (Nude Swamp Women)
George Rodrigue and I are in Las Vegas this weekend, enjoying a three-day vacation before the much-anticipated, happy chaos of the upcoming Baton Rouge exhibition, opening July 23rd with a series of...
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Okaloosa Island
The white sands of Okaloosa Island encompass only 875 acres, a narrow, three-mile stretch of land between Fort Walton Beach and Destin in the Florida Panhandle. Although part of the larger Santa Rosa...
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Expectations in Baton Rouge
I’ve pondered how to write about this past weekend without turning my blog into a society page of party pics from the Louisiana State University Museum of Art's opening for "Blue Dogs and Cajuns on the...
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The Spirit of the Next Hero
“I’m a naïve surrealist,” said George Rodrigue in 1985, “not a sports artist.”This week George Rodrigue unveils his large-scale painting The Spirit of the Next Hero, on view for the first time since he...
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White Linen Night, the Unexpected
I wouldn’t exactly call it a Dirty Linen Warm-Up, and yet it was, in that it was quite warm. But the two events hold separate appeal, one amidst posh, renovated warehouses and the other within the...
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Jacques George Rodrigue
He’s George Rodrigue’s son, my stepson, André’s brother, a foundation’s director and a gallery’s future…He’s the face of a statewide movement towards arts integration in schools; he’s a graduate of LSU...
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Inspired by Louisiana and Scale (New Paintings)
George Rodrigue’s newest paintings, his most important collection in years coming out of New Orleans, are huge, most 4x6 feet or larger. Normally he paints in his studio in Carmel Valley, California,...
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Chef Paul Prudhomme
If George Rodrigue has a chef's counterpart, it’s Paul Prudhomme. They grew up in the relatively close Cajun towns of New Iberia and Opelousas, Louisiana. As young boys both pursued their passions as...
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Rodrigue on the Red River
George Rodrigue has a long history with Shreveport, a northern Louisiana city oftentimes dismissed by southern Louisiana as ‘east Texas.’ As a child, Rodrigue’s own family, in fact, ignored this...
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Honesty, an Image for Peace
Following 9/11, George Rodrigue, like people everywhere, remained shell-shocked for years over the hatred that spawned a terrorist attack. Although he painted God Bless America in direct response, the...
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Talk About Good!
In 1979 George Rodrigue loaned twenty 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...
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An Artist’s Wife ( ... okay, now on facebook)
“To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations of those who knew...
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Go North (to Shreveport) and Learn
Shreveport often gets a bum rap. “It’s east Texas,” claim many, as though that’s a bad thing. This Red River city fights for not only Louisiana’s embrace, but also the South’s.And yet Shreveport,...
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Popular Art: Famous Paintings by George Rodrigue
During our recent tours in north Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle, the question arose several times regarding George Rodrigue’s most popular paintings.“My favorite painting,” he’s quick to reply,...
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I Ain’t No Cartoon Dog
The Blue Dog is not a cartoon. It is a shape that interacts with other shapes, not characters, all according to George Rodrigue’s artistic eye. There are no speech bubbles coming from its mouth....
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A Cajun in California
It was ten years ago that George Rodrigue built his studio in the hills of Carmel Valley, California. Since that time, although we live most of the year in New Orleans, ninety percent of his work...
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The Secret of Pirate Lafitte’s Gold
“O’er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,Far as the breeze can hear, the billows foam,Survey our empire and behold our home!" –Lord Byron, 1814, The...
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