{"title":"Featured","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"she-brought-me-sunshine","title":"She Brought Me Sunshine","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis estate released print is based on a painting George Rodrigue created in 1998. The composition of \u003cem\u003eShe Brought Me Sunshine\u003c\/em\u003e is similar to that of a traditional still-life painting. Rodrigue included lit candles and flowers in the painting, which symbolize the fleeting nature of life and the passage of time in still life paintings. The Blue Dog sprouts from a pot of red flowers. Behind the dog, Rodrigue has painted a painting of one of his oak trees. In this way, Rodrigue acknowledges the passage of time within his own career, specifically the transition from his early depictions of the Louisiana landscape to incorporating the Blue Dog into his artistic language. The print’s title is inspired by the shades of yellow that give the work its bright, cheerful appearance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Sold Unframed. Price and availability subject to change without notice.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll prints sold directly by the Rodrigue Estate are also accompanied with a certificate of authenticity indicating the number of the print purchased from the estate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Rodrigue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56353300611238,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0738\/1726\/0198\/files\/She-Brought-Me-Sunshine-2025-web.webp?v=1775676322"},{"product_id":"i-m-a-movie-star","title":"I’m a Movie Star","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew Rodrigue Estate Print Release Celebrates Nationwide Streaming of \"\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/documentary-film\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eBlue: The Life and Art of George Rodrigue\u003c\/a\u003e\" on PBS - \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/documentary-film\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eAccess Film via Our Documentary Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1991, George Rodrigue opened a gallery in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, a place he’d admired since attending art school in California during the 1960s. Following the gallery’s opening, Rodrigue spent stretches of time working and creating in Carmel, becoming a part of the area’s community. In 2013, the organizers of the Carmel Art \u0026amp; Film Festival selected Rodrigue as the event’s featured artist. To commemorate the occasion, Rodrigue chose a Blue Dog mixed media work on chrome paper, created in 2010, to serve as the festival’s official image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe work features the bust of a Blue Dog silkscreened onto chrome paper with hand-painted embellishments, including flowers and a yellow background. It’s the result of extensive artistic experimentation. To create mixed media works on chrome paper, Rodrigue had to find a paper that could absorb both silkscreen ink and acrylic paint. He eventually found materials that allowed him to execute his vision so thoroughly that he could use the chrome paper as he might a painting’s canvas, saturating the surface with vibrant, colorful designs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2024, when \u003cem\u003eBlue: The Life and Art of George Rodrigue\u003c\/em\u003e, the first feature-length documentary about Rodrigue’s career, was in production by WLAE Studios, a New Orleans-based public television station, the Rodrigue family selected this mixed media image as the film’s official promotional image. To coincide with the documentary’s wider release on PBS channels across the country, this mixed media is now available for the first time as an estate-stamped silkscreen print. The Rodrigue family retitled the originally untitled work \u003cem\u003eI’m a Movie Star\u003c\/em\u003e, a title George had used previously. Like the original silkscreen, \u003cem\u003eI’m a Movie Star\u003c\/em\u003e has a chrome paper base, preserving the visual qualities of the original work and marking the first time a Rodrigue mixed media on chrome has been reproduced as a silkscreen print. A portion of the proceeds from sales of this print edition will benefit WLAE and their public television programming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Price and availability subject to change without notice.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll prints sold directly by the Rodrigue Estate are also accompanied with a certificate of authenticity indicating the number of the print purchased from the estate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Rodrigue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56357511790758,"sku":null,"price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0738\/1726\/0198\/files\/Im-a-Movie-Star-estate-ed-225-web.webp?v=1775762502"},{"product_id":"the-blues-can-hide-a-bad-apple","title":"The Blues Can Hide a Bad Apple","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, George Rodrigue painted \u003cem\u003eThe Blues Can Hide a Bad Apple\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Blues Can Hide a Bad Apple\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShortly 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Blues Can Hide a Bad Apple\u003c\/em\u003e in the early 1990s. However, as Rodrigue deepened his understanding of printmaking, he began making silkscreen prints, requiring skilled print-makers 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 multi-color process, reflecting a level of detail and complexity once reserved only for his paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis release of \u003cem\u003eThe Blues Can Hide a Bad Apple\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Blues Can Hide a Bad Apple\u003c\/em\u003e features Rodrigue’s estate stamp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Price and availability subject to change without notice, sold unframed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll prints sold directly by the Rodrigue Estate are also accompanied with a certificate of authenticity indicating the number of the print purchased from the estate.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Rodrigue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56357629231270,"sku":null,"price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0738\/1726\/0198\/files\/The-Blues-Can-Hide-a-Bad-Apple-digital-proof-web.webp?v=1775765549"},{"product_id":"stars-hang-out-together","title":"Stars Hang Out Together","description":"\u003cp\u003ePainted in 1996, \u003cem\u003eStars Hang Out Together\u003c\/em\u003e became one of the cornerstones of Houston businessman Don Sanders' collection of Rodrigue's art because it was the first Blue Dog in his collection. In addition to becoming one of Rodrigue's close friends, Sanders would go on to amass one of the largest collections of the artist's work, as highlighted in the publication \u003cem\u003eRodrigue: The Sanders Collection\u003c\/em\u003e, released in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis print shows the Blue Dog with its alter ego, the Red Dog, surrounded by bright yellow stars. The work highlights Rodrigue’s eye for composition and design. Instead of painting perfectly whole stars around the dogs, Rodrigue infuses the work with visual interest by creating the illusion that the dogs have been placed atop an existing plane of stars. Parts and portions of stars poke out from behind the dogs, creating a balance between negative and positive space within the work. The yellow stars accent the yellow in the dogs’ eyes and highlight the fact that the work is composed mainly of the three primary colors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe work’s title, \u003cem\u003eStars Hang Out Together\u003c\/em\u003e, may allude to the growing popularity of the Blue Dog in the 1990s. Yet given the painting’s history of ownership, a retrospective reading of the work’s title and subject matter may incline a viewer to understand this work as a representation of friendship and camaraderie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Price and availability subject to change without notice, sold unframed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll prints sold directly by the Rodrigue Estate are also accompanied with a certificate of authenticity indicating the number of the print purchased from the estate.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Rodrigue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56357667995814,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0738\/1726\/0198\/files\/Stars-Hang-Out-Together-Estate-Ed-web.webp?v=1775766624"},{"product_id":"home-on-the-moon","title":"Home on the Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe early reproductions of Rodrigue's Cajun paintings and early Blue Dog series were lithographic posters, using a four-color process, often mass-produced for special events in open, or large editions. Technology at the time didn’t allow for a more complicated image of the full spectrum of color. However, by the early 2000s, improvements in computer programming now allowed the artist and his printmakers to more easily separate colors in creating high-quality silkscreens. Rodrigue reproduced a handful of images that were originally Cajun lithograph posters as silkscreens during this time later in his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHome on the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e, originally painted in 1991, was one of the very few early Blue Dog paintings ever reproduced as a lithograph poster. This new 2022 printing marks the first time one of the early images used in a Blue Dog lithograph has been reprinted as a true silkscreen in the tradition that Rodrigue embraced later in his career. The silkscreen release in an edition of 175 captures all the nuances of the range of tones of the figures from the original painting and is stamped with the artist’s proprietary Estate stamp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Price and availability subject to change without notice, sold unframed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll prints sold directly by the Rodrigue Estate are also accompanied with a certificate of authenticity indicating the number of the print purchased from the estate.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Rodrigue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56357815976102,"sku":null,"price":2250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0738\/1726\/0198\/files\/Home-on-the-Moon-with-text.webp?v=1775768734"},{"product_id":"mardi-gras-dog","title":"Mardi Gras Dog","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2019, Rodrigue Studios celebrates its 30th Anniversary. In honor of the related exhibition, \u003cem\u003eGeorge Rodrigue’s American Dream\u003c\/em\u003e, at Rodrigue Studio New Orleans throughout 2019, the artist’s family worked with his original master printer, Edmond de Boisblanc of Lafayette, Louisiana, to reproduce four of Rodrigue’s earliest silkscreens. These exceptional and rare prints had been sold out and unavailable for some 25 years. The ‘new’ editions are printed using Rodrigue’s original designs, reproduced to match the early prints, but with an added ‘30 Years’ reference (XXX 2019) and the official Rodrigue Estate stamped signature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Price is introductory and subject to change without notice. Prints sold unframed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll prints sold directly by the Rodrigue Estate are also accompanied with a certificate of authenticity indicating the number of the print purchased from the estate.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Rodrigue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56357958025382,"sku":null,"price":2000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0738\/1726\/0198\/files\/Mardi-Gras-Dog-1992-2018-30th.webp?v=1775771357"},{"product_id":"pin-full-body-sterling-silver-gold-aura","title":"Pin: Full Body, Sterling Silver, Gold Aura","description":"\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThese stunning jewelry pieces are true works of art, first designed by George Rodrigue working with master silversmith Douglas Magnus some twenty years ago.  They have been unavailable since 2006, and are now available for Rodrigue collectors.  \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wendyrodrigue.com\/2016\/12\/rodrigue-jewelry.html\"\u003eRead the history\u003c\/a\u003e of this friendship and collaboration, and view other pieces in this collection at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wendyrodrigue.com\/2016\/12\/rodrigue-jewelry.html\"\u003eMusings of an Artist's Wife\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThese outstanding works are of the highest quality.  They are handcrafted, one-by-one, and are \u003cstrong\u003eextremely limited in terms of on-hand inventory\u003c\/strong\u003e.   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFor information on other pieces available through Rodrigue Studios, please \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/galleries\/\"\u003econtact us\u003c\/a\u003e. Prices range between $475 and $4750.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eAll jewelry sales are final, however, exchanges may be made within 14 days of purchase.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e*Price and availability are subject to change without notice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Rodrigue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369729044646,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0738\/1726\/0198\/files\/fullbodypingoldaura.webp?v=1775819621"},{"product_id":"beach-ball-bingo","title":"Beach Ball Bingo","description":"Although George Rodrigue is best known for his oak tree–accented depictions of the Louisiana landscape, throughout his career he drew inspiration for his work from other places with different landscapes. As a child, Rodrigue visited the Mississippi Gulf Coast with his parents; as an art student in California during the 1960s, he traveled along the Pacific coast; and he later spent time on the Florida Panhandle and in Hawaii. These experiences inspired a small but vibrant group of coastal scenes featuring his iconic Blue Dog—originally derived from Cajun loup-garou folklore and first appearing in the 1980s—which Rodrigue relocated from bayou settings into new, often leisure-filled environments.\n\nIn 2012, Rodrigue painted Beach Ball Bingo (pictured in his home in New Orleans and in progress on his easel), a playful shore scene featuring two of his signature Blue Dogs standing in the sand amongst three colorful beach balls. The composition’s bold, flat colors and simplified forms reflect the artist’s distinctive blend of Bayou Surrealist roots and Pop-art sensibility; the paired dogs add a note of companionship unusual in a series more often centered on a solitary figure. The painting’s background is rendered in subtly shifting shades of blue that distinguish sky from water. Similarly, Rodrigue uses more saturated colors to paint the curving strips of sand closest to the shoreline, indicating where water has washed ashore and receded. In the same way that he set out to capture what made Louisiana unique in his early landscape paintings, Rodrigue captured the subtle details that make coastal landscapes special in Beach Ball Bingo.\n\nBeach Ball Bingo serves as a precursor to the much-loved Sit in Your Own Chair (2013) silkscreen, which depicts a row of brightly colored Adirondack beach chairs on the sand—each paired with its own matching Blue Dog—further celebrating Rodrigue’s nostalgic memories of family outings along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in Florida. Over a decade earlier, works such as the popular Hawaiian Blues (1998–99), commissioned by Neiman Marcus for the opening of their Honolulu store and featuring the Blue Dog with a butterfly lei against palm-fringed shores, demonstrated how Hawaii in particular expanded his coastal vocabulary.\n\nIn 2017, the painting was included in the exhibition Rodrigue: American Beach at the artist’s former gallery in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. The show celebrated Rodrigue’s lifelong affection for sun, sand, and surf, rooted in personal memories of childhood beach visits (he once recalled envying friends with beach houses while staying in motels). And now Beach Ball Bingo is available as an estate-stamped lithograph. These hand-pulled stone lithographs were produced in France by a team of skilled artisans specializing in this traditional printmaking process. Each artisan focuses on a specific element of the printmaking process, such as color separation, stone etching, and print pulling. The resulting image does an impressive job of capturing the painterly detail and retaining the visual spirit of the original painting.\n\nSold unframed. Price and availability subject to change without notice.\n\nAll prints sold directly by the Rodrigue Estate are also accompanied by a certificate of authenticity indicating the number of the print purchased from the estate.","brand":"George Rodrigue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56691965952166,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0738\/1726\/0198\/files\/Beach-Ball-Bingo-Estate-Ed-175.webp?v=1782245584"},{"product_id":"stars-and-stripes-and-me","title":"Stars and Stripes and Me","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"commentaryWrapper\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFeatured in the landmark 1996 \u003cstrong data-end=\"4135\" data-start=\"4109\"\u003eBlue Dog for President\u003c\/strong\u003e exhibition at Union Station in Washington, D.C., this painting unites George Rodrigue’s lifelong exploration of patriotism, identity, and American culture.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd id=\"gmail-commentaryTD\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eBy the time George Rodrigue created Stars and Stripes and Me in 1996, the Blue Dog had evolved from a haunting Cajun folktale into one of the most recognizable icons in American art. Rodrigue first painted the dog in the 1980s as the loup-garou, a mythical werewolf said to roam the Louisiana swamps. By the early 1990s he had stripped away the landscape and folklore trappings, transforming the figure through the bold, hard-edge, graphic techniques of Pop Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eJust as Andy Warhol turned Campbell’s Soup Cans into graphic emblems of American consumer culture, Rodrigue distilled the Blue Dog into a simplified silhouette with piercing yellow eyes and electric, saturated color. Rodrigue came to see the Blue Dog as a vehicle for commenting on life today. Its steady, piercing gaze—carrying the hopes and longings of a melancholy people yet always looking forward—invites viewers to confront their own questions about belonging, loss, and what comes next. What began as a regional folktale became a universal emblem of resilience and reinvention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: right;\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Blue-Dog-for-President-banner-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Blue-Dog-for-President-banner-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Blue-Dog-for-President-banner-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Blue-Dog-for-President-banner-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Blue-Dog-for-President-banner.jpg 1248w\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" alt=\"George Rodrigue Blue Dog\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Blue-Dog-for-President-banner-300x200.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19830 size-medium\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eStars and Stripes and Me\u003c\/em\u003e, Rodrigue places the Blue Dog against a dynamic field of stars and stripes that reads like a waving American flag. The painting was featured in his 1996 exhibition \u003cem\u003eBlue Dog for President\u003c\/em\u003e at Union Station in Washington, D.C.—a playful insertion of this pop icon into the heart of American political life. Throughout his career Rodrigue used the flag as a symbol of belonging and national pride, whether in early depictions of Cajun life (\u003cem\u003eMiss July 4th of Carencro\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLouisiana\u003c\/em\u003e, 1971, and \u003cem\u003eLouisiana \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eCowboys\u003c\/em\u003e, 1987) or in focused portraits of military figures and Indigenous Americans. Here, the flag serves the same connective purpose: it anchors the Blue Dog firmly in the American story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eNearly three decades after it was painted, Stars and Stripes and Me remains as relevant as ever. As the United States commemorates its 250th anniversary, the work reminds us that George Rodrigue’s vision of America was one built not on uniformity, but on the idea that local stories, regional traditions, and individual voices together form the nation’s greatest strength. His career demonstrates that regional art and American art are not opposing traditions, but inseparable parts of the same cultural story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eTo explore this evolution in greater depth, read the companion essay, “\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/george-rodrigues-blue-dog-from-cajun-roots-to-pure-americana-honoring-250-years-of-the-united-states\/\"\u003eGeorge Rodrigue’s Blue Dog: From Cajun Roots to Pure Americana – Honoring 250 Years of the United States.\u003c\/a\u003e“\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Sold Unframed. 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