1944-2013. Born and raised in southwest Louisiana, “Cajun Country,” George Rodrigue preserved on his canvas what he feared was his dying heritage — including its land, people, traditions and mythology. It was a Cajun legend, the loup-garou, that spawned his most famous series,
BLUE: The Life and Art of George Rodrigue is airing on public TV stations, presented by WLAE New Orleans and distributed by American Public Television. Stream exclusively with the PBS Passport app by becoming a member of your local PBS affiliate.
“I grew up feeling a strong relationship to the old things, to the old culture, and I got a stronger feeling when I went to Los Angeles to school. I really started to understand how different I was and how different my Louisiana was.”
Rodrigue Gallery: The Unveiling, created in 2010 by George Rodrigue, is a newly re-released print in 2026. This Estate Completed Edition of 500 measures 40 x 26 inches and is available for purchase from Rodrigue Studios or online. In 2009, George Rodrigue purchased a centuries-old four-story brick building on Royal […]
I’ve always approached painting knowing that my job is not to make an accurate representation of a subject–
IT’S GOT TO TRANSCEND THAT.
New Estate-Stamped Release!
Rodrigue Gallery: The Unveiling
Original silkscreen by George Rodrigue, 2010
Estate Completed Edition of 500
(#190–500 estate stamped)
Approx. 40 × 26 inches
Available at Rodrigue Studios and online at link in bio ⬆️
In 2010, George Rodrigue opened his flagship gallery on Royal Street in New Orleans — a historic space nearly three times larger than his previous location (2/2). To mark the occasion, he created this silkscreen, centering a Blue Dog draped in red within the new interior: a quiet motif of revelation drawn from his earlier work.
The composition incorporates personal details from the artist’s studio, including an actual rug from the floor and references to two paintings from 2008 and 2009. These elements quietly foreshadow the dramatic increase in scale that would define the final chapter of Rodrigue’s career.
A reflective work honoring perseverance and a pivotal artistic milestone.
A notable auction result for George Rodrigue.
George Rodrigue’s “A Taste of Autumn,” oil and acrylic on canvas, 14 × 11 inches, realized $118,750 (including buyer’s premium) at Neal Auction last Friday.
Created in 1995, the painting exemplifies Rodrigue’s distinctive fusion of Louisiana landscape tradition with his highly personal figurative style. This secondary-market outcome reflects the sustained interest in Rodrigue’s oeuvre and its established place within the broader context of Louisiana and American art.
As Rodrigue Studios continues its scholarly work on the Catalogue Raisonné of the artist’s complete body of work—already documenting thousands of paintings and prints—this result further contributes to the historical record and ongoing study of his legacy.
For additional information, please visit the Catalogue Raisonné page: https://georgerodrigue.com/blog/catalogue-raisonne/
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NOW AVAILABLE
She Told Me to Hit the Road and Never Come Back
1994
Oil heavily embellished direct image transfer on masonite
30 x 40 inches
Contact us at link in bio ⬆️ to learn more
She Told Me to the Hit the Road and Never Come Back takes its inspiration from a painting titled Escort for the Kingfish. In 1988 the son of a Louisiana state police officer commissioned George Rodrigue to create a painting based on a photograph of his father’s police unit. The unit, officially known as the Law Enforcement Division of the Highway Commission and informally as the Cajun Highway Police, escorted Huey P. Long, the 40th governor of Louisiana, around the state. In his painting, Rodrigue placed the men in one of his oak tree-accented landscape settings.
A few years after completing Escort for the Kingfish, Rodrigue created a mixed media piece from the work. Throughout the early 1990s, Rodrigue occasionally created Direct Image Transfers of his Cajun and Blue Dog paintings, primarily at the request of collectors. Rodrigue created his DITs in small edition sizes; each work resulted from rendering a high-quality, large-format photograph of an original painting onto masonite board or canvas.
In addition to the printed elements of She Told Me to the Hit the Road and Never Come Back, Rodrigue also hand-painted a sizable blue dog into the work. The blue dog, which measures approximately 12 x 8 inches wears the same motorcycle goggles as the governor’s police force. The inclusion of the blue dog in the scene speaks to Rodrigue’s ability to create artwork that evokes Louisiana’s history through the visual language of contemporary pop art.
Discover “Waiting for the Greyhound Bus” a striking piece by George Rodrigue from 2010 (private collection). This 16 x 20-inch acrylic on canvas board is our featured Catalogue Raisonné work of the week.
If you own a unique George Rodrigue artwork, the Rodrigue family invites you to share details for inclusion in the comprehensive catalogue raisonné documenting his life’s work.
For submission guidelines and more information, visit https://georgerodrigue.com/catalogue-raisonne/ or reach out at [email protected]
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From the moment George Rodrigue returned to Louisiana from art school in Los Angeles in the late 1960s, his goal was clear: build a career as an artist.
What he hadn’t counted on? Selling the work himself.
At a time when Lafayette had no art galleries—and the few in New Orleans showed little interest in his moody, repetitive Cajun landscapes—George turned his Jefferson Street home into both studio and gallery.
That house became the heart of everything: where his sons grew up, where his dog Tiffany roamed, and where he painted hundreds of works that would one day define Cajun art. For many fans, stepping inside was their very first introduction to his world.
Sometimes you don’t find the path—you build it.
Learn more about this chapter of George’s journey in our online Timeline at Link Tree in bio ⬆️
Pictured: George Rodrigue in his Jefferson Street studio, Lafayette, Louisiana, circa 1980.
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In the early 1990s, George Rodrigue began creating works that combined silkscreen ink and paint. The artist referred to these works as mixed medias since they included more than one artistic medium. This large-scale mixed-media features a blue dog rendered in silkscreen ink, accented with colorful, exuberant flourishes in acrylic paint on illustration board.
As with all of Rodrigue’s mixed medias, the painted elements in N1-07 emphasize the artist’s hand through the expressive application of paint on the work’s surface. Rodrigue’s gestural, visible brushstrokes underscore that while each mixed media contains silkscreen-printed elements, the painted elements make each a unique, one-of-a-kind artwork.
N1-07
2007
Acrylic paint and silkscreen ink on illustration board
52 x 35 inches
Newly available and on display at Rodrigue Studios New Orleans. Contact us to learn more at [email protected]
🌟 Still one of our favorite print releases from last summer — especially now with all the exciting news around the film.
“I’m a Movie Star” (2010/2025) is a limited Estate Edition silkscreen on chrome paper. George originally created the mixed-media work with hand-painted flowers and vibrant details, and selected a version of this image as the official poster for the 2013 Carmel Art & Film Festival when he was the featured artist. The family later chose it as the key promotional image for the documentary Blue: The Life and Art of George Rodrigue.
The print (21 x 26 inches, edition of 225) captures George’s experimental approach — treating chrome paper almost like a canvas for silkscreen and acrylic.
If you haven’t caught the documentary yet, it’s now streaming exclusively through PBS Passport via your local public television station (a benefit of PBS membership). The film takes viewers through George’s journey from his Cajun roots and early challenges to creating the iconic Blue Dog that captured the world’s imagination.
Fresh update: Blue has earned a 2026 News & Documentary Emmy nomination for Outstanding Regional Documentary — one of only five selected nationwide — following its 2025 Suncoast Regional Emmy win for Cultural Documentary.
A beautiful way to connect with the art and the story that’s continuing to reach new audiences.
More on the print available at link in bio ⬆️
To stream the film, check PBS Passport through your local station.
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Sunday Morning
1978
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches
Newly available and on display at Rodrigue Studios New Orleans. Contact us at [email protected] to learn more.
George Rodrigue began painting people in 1971. Up until then, he’d created landscape scenes that depicted not only the appearance but also the feel of Louisiana. But in the early 70s, Rodrigue began incorporating people into these landscape scenes. He painted both real and imagined scenes that captured the everyday rhythms and special traditions of Cajun life and culture. In Sunday Morning, three figures appear before one of Rodrigue’s signature oak trees. Given the work’s title and the clothes worn by the two girls and boy in the painting, you can imagine they might be on their way to or heading home from church.
Rodrigue paints the figures to emphasize the two-dimensional nature of paintings, placing them flat against the landscape, framed by the oak tree’s limb as if they were pasted into the scene. Rodrigue added texture by painting the oak tree, ground, and sky in thick layers of oil paint, giving the landscape a verdant appearance. Sunday Morning presents a great opportunity for a Rodrigue collector to own a work emblematic of his early artistic style.
