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Who Will She Be Today?
George Rodrigue’s newest silkscreen, Who Will She Be Today?, is a rare style among his prints. Only a handful of his Blue Dog works on paper originate with paintings. Usually, as explained in the...
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Farmer's Market
Since the early 1970s George Rodrigue set out to preserve onhis canvas Louisiana’s Cajun heritage. Following his return to New Iberia from art school in Los Angeles, henoticed dramatic changes in the...
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Blue Dog and Intellectual Property (Guest Blog Entry)
Guest blog entry byJacques Rodrigue, George Rodrigue’s son. He currently serves as House Counsel for Rodrigue Studio and ExecutiveDirector of the George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts. He is a...
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Museum News (Rodrigue on the Walls)
If you were lucky enough to see the Rodrigue retrospectiveexhibitions in 2007 in Memphis and 2008 in New Orleans, then you know the powerof such shows. For those whosought the Blue Dog, the Cajuns and...
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Blue Dog on the Defensive
Twenty-two years ago I moved from New Orleans to Carmel-by-the-Sea,an easy decision even for a gal with little knowledge of California beyond The Grapes of Wrath (hardly a ringingendorsement). In the...
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Read Me the Blues
I’ve loved libraries from the time I was a kid. During the mid-1970s I worked at the library at New Heights Elementary School in Fort Walton Beach, Florida for extra credit, and it was there that I...
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Rodrigue’s Bicentennial Poster
George Rodrigue painted the Aioli Dinner in 1971 based on photographs of a gourmet dinner club, the Creole Gourmet Society. This was his first painting with people, and during the six months that he...
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Crawfish Dreams and Artist Friends
George Rodrigue loves crawfish primarily as a symbol of Cajun culture. The shellfish itself is deadly to him, inducing a closed throat and limited breathing.“Soon after I did my crawfish festival...
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Aunt Wendy and the Cones
It was five years ago that our nephews, age four and six, summoned me from the kitchen where, while cooking dinner, I strained my ears towards their whispers in the den. What on earth?, I thought,...
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Landlocked Pirogues & Blue Dog’s Eyes (The Art of Improvisation)
“People are moving in time and in history, in a pirogue, on land...” ...wrote George Rodrigue in 1975 about his painting, John Courrege’s Pirogue.The painting is one of seventy-eight images featured in...
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Hopeful (Discomfort)
“Medicine is an art, not a science,” explained a friend recently, as I struggled with misdiagnoses and conflicting reports.“Fifteen people looked at my wife’s images,” he continued, “and only one...
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Clifton Chenier and a Cajun Explosion
In 1985 George Rodrigue painted the great musician Clifton Chenier (1925-1987). At the time, Chenier was world-famous, crowned a Grammy Award winner in 1983 and summoned everywhere from San Francisco...
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Dog in a Box
In yoga, I spent years within our bedroom practicing tree pose, standing on one leg, arms stretching skyward, until I balanced with ease. Yet at my first attempt outside, at the edge of our patio in...
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Happy Father's Day, George!
I’ve written before about brothers André and Jacques Rodrigue. George painted his boys many times, and the paintings, including Kiss Me I’m Cajun with André and Paint Me Back Into Your Life with...
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Summer Distractions
“I know what your problem is, Wendy,” noted Heather, as she endured, as sisters do, my somewhatminor, but nevertheless ridiculous, breakdown over exceedingly minor things.A whiny, determined adolescent...
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Match Race
“The straight sprints raced in heats or in match races where the two riders would balance for long seconds on their machines for the advantage of making the other rider take the lead and then the slow...
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A Star-spangled Blue Dog (from Houston)
Happy 4th of July!It’s an odd one, this middle of the week celebration, but perhaps that awkward timing renews enthusiasm, as folks have big plans, including barbeques and neighborhood parties despite...
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Starry Starry Eyes: A Runaway Hit
In 1991 George Rodrigue’s printed artwork bolted forward with new color and precision as he applied the latest in ink and technology to his silkscreens. This was a substantial advancement over his...
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Success
This week I read Just Kids, poet/rocker Patti Smith’s personal account of life with her closest friend, artist/photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. I had planned an essay on Louisiana’s Legends, a series...
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Lucky Dog
Yesterday morning I sat in the window of a Houston, Texas café, George Rodrigue’s sandwich order in hand, awaiting the counter change from breakfast to lunch. An Ignatius J. Reilly nearby spoke of...
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