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Official page for the life and artwork of artist George Rodrigue (1944-2013) and Rodrigue Studios.

Rodrigue Studios is the official gallery for George Rodrigue artwork featuring original paintings, signed prints, Blue Dog prints, Cajun prints, Sculptures, Mixed Media, Rare Drawings and Rodrigue jewelry with locations in New Orleans, LA & Lafayette, LA.

06/01/2026

EMMY WINNER! 🏆

“Blue – The Life and Art of George Rodrigue” just won the Outstanding Regional Documentary at the 47th National News & Documentary Emmy Awards last week in New York at Jazz at Lincoln Center!

This is a huge deal — only five regional documentaries from the entire country even get nominated each year. For a film made right here in New Orleans by our local station WLAE-TV, telling the story of a true Louisiana icon like George, to take home the national Emmy is something special.

Huge congratulations to director Sean O’Malley and the entire WLAE team at Rodrigue Blue Dog Film. Thank you to everyone who has supported the film from the very beginning — this one is for Louisiana and for George. 💙

Learn more: https://georgerodrigue.com/blog/blue-the-life-and-art-of-george-rodrigue-wins-2026-news-documentary-emmy-award/

05/29/2026

EMMY WINNER! 🏆

“Blue – The Life and Art of George Rodrigue” just won the Outstanding Regional Documentary at the 47th National News & Documentary Emmy Awards tonight in New York at Jazz at Lincoln Center!

This is a huge deal — only five regional documentaries from the entire country even get nominated each year. For a film made right here in New Orleans by our local station WLAE-TV, telling the story of a true Louisiana icon like George, to take home the national Emmy is something special.

Huge congratulations to director Sean O’Malley and the entire WLAE team at Rodrigue Blue Dog Film. Thank you to everyone who has supported the film from the very beginning — this one is for Louisiana and for George. 💙

05/26/2026

George Rodrigue (1944–2013), the Louisiana artist celebrated for transforming Cajun folklore and the Blue Dog into global icons of contemporary American art, created a series of four large-scale paintings in June 2013 at his Carmel, California studio. Executed in the final months of his life, these works reflect the modernist direction of his late career—simplified geometric forms, luminous color blocks, and precise compositional harmony.

“Living in the Spotlight” is the fourth and final fine art silkscreen print released by the Rodrigue Estate from this series, produced according to the artist’s instructions. This 20 × 30 inch limited edition of 450 faithfully renders the original painting and bears the official Rodrigue Estate stamp.

Available for online purchase at: https://georgerodrigue.com/product/living-in-the-spotlight/

Pictured: “Living in the Spotlight” – Fine Art Silkscreen from George Rodrigue’s original 2013 design. 20 × 30 inches. Official estate stamp. Edition of 450.

05/25/2026

Celebrating the courage and sacrifice of our brave servicemen and women this Memorial Day. We honor those who selflessly served America, giving their lives to protect our freedom and way of life. Let us take a moment to reflect and express our deepest gratitude. May this Memorial Day be a time of remembrance, unity, and safe enjoyment for all. 🇺🇸

Pictured: Stand Up Straight and Tall, 2001 by George Rodrigue, 48x48 inches, acrylic on canvas. Collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art

Spanish Moss, 1995Oil on linen8 3/4 x 10 3/4 inchesInquires: info@georgerodrigue.com Though landscape paintings are most...

05/24/2026

Spanish Moss, 1995
Oil on linen
8 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches
Inquires: [email protected]

Though landscape paintings are most often associated with George Rodrigue’s early work, he painted the natural world throughout his career. Spanish Moss has the feel of one of Rodrigue’s early landscapes despite being created in 1995. In this painting, as with those early landscapes, Rodrigue divides his canvas into three core elements: the oak tree, the ground, and the sky. Here, he pays special attention to the oak tree, which is rendered in a painterly, almost impressionistic style to emphasize the moss on the tree. Though Rodrigue’s early landscapes were known for their use of dark colors, in Spanish Moss, he strikes a delicate balance between the light and dark elements, resulting in a work that depicts the subtle stylistic shifts legible in the work of an artist committed to a particular subject matter.

05/23/2026

She Told Me to Hit the Road and Never Come Back, 1994
Oil heavily embellished direct image transfer on masonite
30 x 40 inches
On view at Rodrigue Studios New Orleans
Inquiries: [email protected]

She Told Me to the Hit the Road and Never Come Back takes its inspiration from a painting titled Es**rt 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 Es**rt 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.

05/22/2026

Discover "Red Hot Summer of '06” a striking piece by George Rodrigue from 2006 (private collection). This 40 x 30-inch acrylic on canvas 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]

05/21/2026

George Rodrigue with his 2012 painting Beach Ball Bingo in his New Orleans home.

This coastal scene featuring two Blue Dogs on the beach was one of his favorite late works. The original painting is now available as a limited estate lithograph, hand-pulled in France.

Learn more: https://georgerodrigue.com/blog/product/beach-ball-bingo/

05/20/2026

During a visit to New Mexico in 1985, George Rodrigue met an Indigenous American woman named Evergreen Lake. Shortly after their meeting, Rodrigue spent an afternoon photographing Evergreen Lake and used those photographs as reference images for paintings he created during the second half of the 1980s. Evergreen Lake became a recurring female figure in his paintings like Evangeline and Jolie Blonde. In this focused portrait Rodrigue paints Evergreen Lake amongst a background that includes elements of the American flag and colors that call to mind those Rodrigue used in his landscape paintings. Evergreen Lake's presence in Rodrigue’s paintings helped to expand the visual stories his work communicated about people and their connection to land.

Evergreen Lake with Flag
1989
Oil on linen
14 x 11 inches
On display at Rodrigue Studios New Orleans
Inquiries: [email protected]

05/18/2026

Untitled (We Love Both of You)
George Rodrigue, 1996
Acrylic on canvas

A group of visitors in the gallery last week — a local couple hosting family from Vietnam — immediately recognized the large red heart in this painting as strikingly similar to BT21’s character Tata.

Originally created for a wedding, the work almost entirely conceals the Blue Dog behind the heart, with the inscription “we love both of you, because your heart has touched all of us.”

Now on view at Rodrigue Studios, New Orleans.

Inquiries: [email protected]

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