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Blue Dog at the Movies
Since childhood, George Rodrigue has loved the movies. It’s the reason, along with Saints and LSU football, that his studio doubles as a theatre, and why most nights he paints to the backdrop of...
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The Breaux Bridge Band
Painted in 1971, The Breaux Bridge Band is a classic among George Rodrigue’s paintings. Along with similar works from this period, it defines his style as a pictorial champion of the Cajun culture,...
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Footnote (He Stopped Loving Her Today)
In George Rodrigue’s latest painting, He Stopped Loving Her Today, Jolie Blonde’s hat sits alongside an above-ground tomb, the same type of vault his father installed in New Iberia, Louisiana as part...
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Rodrigue Collaborates
When it comes to painting, George Rodrigue is a loner. In recent months, he embraces full time the isolated setting of his Carmel Valley studio. The limited interruptions and lack of social...
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Shiny Happy Blue Dog
“We mortals are but shadows and dust.”–Proximo, GladiatorRecently, while shopping for skinny jeans and day-glo tees with my sister and cousin, I time-warped to the 1980s when flashy jewelry,...
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Living in the Spotlight
“This world, he’d say, is where you live, right here you do whatever work you have to do.” –Darrell Bourque on Elemore Morgan, Jr.*Some years ago I attended alone an opening at the Arthur Roger Gallery...
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Intermission
Taking a painting and blogging break, as George Rodrigue and I celebrate many, many things with a mini-vacation in Las Vegas. While here, I read at last Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, and will finish up...
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Walker Percy (The Impossible Dream)
“Waking wide-eyed dreams come as fitfully as swampfire.”*Years ago artist George Rodrigue owned a camp in Butte la Rose, Louisiana on the Atchafalaya Basin. He purchased it as a small, cabin-like...
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My Blues Brothers
George Rodrigue has painted several versions of the Blues Brothers since 1995. Although all in private collections, the paintings from this series are among his most popular, famous within the pages...
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Rodeo Drive
Artist George Rodrigue and I attended a rodeo in South Lake Tahoe, Nevada last weekend. The area, called Glenbrook, reminded me at first of developments like Seaside and WaterColor near my hometown of...
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Rocky Mountain Blues
Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, George Rodrigue, like many New Orleans artists, sought temporary new venues for his work. Even after the Rodrigue Gallery reopened in January 2006, it was several...
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A Blessed Life (An Irish Angel)
Last summer was challenging, as George Rodrigue faced an advanced lung cancer diagnosis and several months of treatment in Houston. Last fall, with his disease in remission, we tied up loose ends in...
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Gus Weill and George Rodrigue (a couple of local boys)
Why do you do what you do?Ah sir if we only knew.But the winds callAnd the waves tossAnd we followAnd are lost.Ah sir if we only knew.* -Gus Weill, 1981(pictured, A Couple of...
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Tom "Slim" Gray
“I wish I’d met you 20 years ago,” ...said a tearful George Rodrigue on the phone last week with Tom “Slim” Gray of Alvin, Texas. The two became friends in Houston during the summer of 2012. They...
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Galerie Blue Dog, Carmel
In 1991 George Rodrigue opened Galerie Blue Dog in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. The one-square-mile village includes cottages, restaurants, shops and galleries, all descending westward towards the...
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"When you hit twenty-two, it changes the game..."...said my friend, referring to her lucky number as we played our own "terrific" version of poker in between blood pressure readings, bed changes, and...
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A New Rodrigue Book
“To your book!”…toasted George Rodrigue and son André as we perused the first copies of the finished hardcover, The Other Side of the Painting.“I nearly forgot about it…”…I replied, moved by their...
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Absolut Blue Dog
It’s twenty-five years since George Rodrigue last drank alcohol,* and yet he was part of one of the most successful stories in advertising history, promoting a vodka.“Even when I did drink,” laughs the...
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Louisiana’s Natural Beauty: An Art Contest with the Audubon Institute
The George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts (GRFA) announces its fifth annual Art Contest, a partnership with the Audubon Nature Institute. This statewide opportunity for scholarships and other awards...
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Spinning Wisdom
‘Round about, round about, Lo and behold!Reel away, reel away, Straw into gold!’*All my life, I’ve been drawn to women older and wiser. I like to imagine my grandmothers,...
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