George Rodrigue

George Rodrigue ( born March 13, 1944 in New Iberia, Louisiana, † December 14, 2013 in Houston, Texas ) was a Cajun artist from Louisiana.

Life and work

After school on a boys' school, he studied art at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. He is best known for several posters at several major music festivals, portraits of politicians like Ronald Reagan and his used inter alia in the art series for Absolut Vodka Blue Dog images. These are eponymous for the Blue Dog Coalition policy.

Publications

• The Cajuns of George Rodrigue
• Le Petit Cajun: Conversations with André Rodrigue, talks with his son
• Blue Dog (Viking / Penguin, 1994), was listed as a Book of the Month Club
• George Rodrigue; A Cajun Artist ( Penguin Studio, 1997)
• Blue Dog man ( foreword by Tom Brokaw, Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1999)
• A Blue Dog Christmas ( Stewart Tabori & Chang, 2000)
• The Art of George Rodrigue retrospective by Ginger Danto and George Rodrigue, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., November 2003
• George Rodrigue Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne ( Abrams, 2008)