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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.

10/24/2026

A few years after painting his first Blue Dog, George Rodrigue began experimenting with the possibility of depicting the dog in sculptural form. This sculpture is the result of some of those early artistic explorations. In the early 1990s, Rodrigue created Blue Dog sculptures from blocks of wood, in this case, mahogany. These works are referred to as cutouts because the shape of the dog would be cut out of the wood and then painted with oil. Rodrigue painted one side of the sculpture blue and the other side red to reflect both sides of the Blue Dog. This sculpture features a pole and stand display, which makes each side of the sculpture visible. In addition to being a beautifully crafted work of art, this sculpture serves as a record of Rodrigue’s artistic progression.

Untitled Blue Dog Sculpture
c. 1990
oil on mahogany
21 x 13 inches
Newly available and on display at Rodrigue Studios New Orleans. Contact us to learn more at [email protected]

10/23/2026

Discover the original painting, "Big Dog in a Small Town" a striking piece by George Rodrigue from 2010 (private collection). This 24 x 18-inch remastered digital print with acrylic paint 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]

10/21/2026

In 1992, George Rodrigue painted The Blues Can Hide a Bad Apple, a work that features three blue dogs and one red dog. Rodrigue began painting red dogs in 1990 to depict the blue dog’s alter ego or sly side. As the painting’s title suggests, here, the red dog represents the blue dog’s bad side. With a yellow background, the painting is made up mostly of primary colors. The blue dogs on either end of The Blues Can Hide a Bad Apple are only partially visible. Rodrigue shows half of their faces, giving the viewer the sense that this line of dogs extends beyond what’s shown on the canvas.

Shortly after creating the painting, Rodrigue turned the work into a lithograph print. Using a four-color process, he typically used for his Cajun posters, Rodrigue produced an edition of prints of The Blues Can Hide a Bad Apple in the early 1990s. However, as Rodrigue deepened his understanding of printmaking, he began making silkscreen prints, requiring skilled printmakers to create different screens to produce each color in a print. As printmaking technology advanced throughout the late 1990s and 2000s, Rodrigue’s prints could use a multicolor process, reflecting a level of detail and complexity once reserved only for his paintings.

This release of The Blues Can Hide a Bad Apple uses Rodrigue's preferred silkscreen process, resulting in a high-quality print featuring saturated colors rendered in a way that calls to mind the brushstrokes of an original painting. Done in an edition of 175, this 12 color silkscreen print of The Blues Can Hide a Bad Apple features Rodrigue’s estate stamp.

The Blues Can Hide a Bad Apple
1992/2025
Silkscreen on paper
12 x 24 inches
Estate Edition of 175
Available at Rodrigue Studios and online: https://shop.georgerodrigue.com/products/the-blues-can-hide-a-bad-apple

10/20/2026

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.

10/19/2026

🎨 Calling all Louisiana high school juniors & seniors! 🎨

The George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts has announced the theme for the 2027 Scholarship Art & Songwriting Contest:

“Rising Waters, Enduring Roots: 100 Years after the 1927 Flood.”

A century ago, the Great Mississippi Flood reshaped Louisiana. George Rodrigue’s own mother, Marie, witnessed it as a young woman in New Iberia. She later recalled sitting in church when she heard a loud whoosh and deep rumbling, stepped outside, and saw the floodwaters rolling straight toward her. She ran in terror, shouting that the water was coming. The trauma stayed with her for life—she sandbagged her house ahead of every rain.

That same resilience runs through Rodrigue’s art. From his early Cajun landscapes like High Water on Wh***ey Bay to the Blue Dog in We Will Rise Again competed after Hurricane Katrina (pictured)—a watchful guardian partly submerged, red-eyed with a broken heart, and marked with a Red Cross call for help—he painted water as both beautiful and perilous, life-giving and destructive.

This year’s contest invites you to explore that dual nature of water and the enduring roots of Louisiana. Create original visual art or an original song (2–5 minutes) inspired by personal or family flood stories, cultural memory, environmental lessons, hope amid destruction, or the strength of sandbagging and rebuilding.

Prizes:

Visual Art: 10 finalists (5 juniors + 5 seniors) share $19,000 in scholarships. Winning works tour exhibitions across Louisiana.
Songwriting: 3 finalists share $6,000. First place performs at Trombone Shorty Foundation & Trombone Shorty Music Academy Shorty Fest in May 2027.

Open to all Louisiana high school juniors and seniors (public, private, charter, or home school). No GPA requirement.

Full details: https://georgerodriguefoundation.org/what-we-do/scholarship-art-contest/

Show us Louisiana’s high water and high spirit. We can’t wait to see what you create. 💙⚜️

10/18/2026

NOW AVAILABLE

Dawn of a New Love
2001
Silkscreen on paper
25 x 20 in.
Signed lower left: Hand signed
Edition of 20/90, framed as is
Inquiries: [email protected]

With each phase of his printmaking, George Rodrigue expanded what he could accomplish in the medium. By the early 2000s Rodrigue had created over three hundred Blue Dog silkscreen print editions. In his book, George Rodrigue Prints: A Catalog Raisonné 1970-2007, Rodrigue reflects on this period writing, “By this time I felt confident working in this medium and could produce almost any effect I wanted.”

Dawn of a New Love, created in 2001, reflects this well-earned confidence. The print features a Blue Dog made using a six-color process. The varying shades of blue give the print texture and visual depth. That effect is compounded by the print’s landscape background done in shades of green, yellow, and orange. Dawn of New Love calls to mind Rodrigue’s early painted depictions of the Blue Dog, where he often placed the creature in a landscape setting. Here, Rodrigue shows how a strong idea can be translated in new ways.

10/17/2026

In 2003, George Rodrigue painted LSU’s Mike the Tiger reclining in one of the artist’s signature Louisiana landscapes. Prints of the image originally raised enough funds to complete construction of the tiger’s world-class new habitat on the campus of LSU.

Learn more and purchase online:
https://shop.georgerodrigue.com/products/mike-the-tiger

10/16/2026

Discover the original mixed media, "Metal 5_13" a striking piece by George Rodrigue from 2013 (private collection). This 48 x 32-inch remastered digital print with acrylic paint on Dibond aluminum 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]

10/15/2026

💙 🏆

Throwback to May 28, 2026 — the night “Blue – The Life and Art of George Rodrigue” won the 2026 News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Regional Documentary at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.

This national honor celebrates George’s remarkable story of resilience: from teaching himself to paint while bedridden with polio as a child, to documenting and preserving Cajun culture, responding to Hurricane Katrina, and transforming a mysterious loup-garou into the world-famous Blue Dog that captured imaginations everywhere.

Haven’t watched the Emmy-winning film yet? There’s still time! Stream “Blue” now on PBS Passport through your local PBS station.

Full details, awards, and how to watch:

https://georgerodrigue.com/blog/documentary-film/

Share your favorite moment from the film or a favorite Blue Dog memory below. 💙

10/14/2026

Originally created in 1996 for George Rodrigue's landmark Blue Dog for President exhibition at Union Station in Washington, D.C., Stars and Stripes and Me represents one of the clearest expressions of the artist's lifelong exploration of patriotism, identity, and American culture.

Although many associate George Rodrigue's patriotic imagery with the Blue Dog, his fascination with the American flag began decades earlier in his celebrated Cajun paintings. Here, those two defining themes come together as the Blue Dog stands before a field of stars and stripes—a powerful reminder that America's greatest strength lies in the many regional stories and traditions that shape our shared identity.

As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, this image remains as meaningful today as when it was first created nearly thirty years ago.

Stars and Stripes and Me
Original Silkscreen by George Rodrigue
Designed 1996 • Printed 2026
26½ × 21 inches (image size)
Estate Edition of 150
Available now at Rodrigue Studios and online: https://shop.georgerodrigue.com/products/stars-and-stripes-and-me

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