George Rodrigue, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGeorge Rodrigue
American artist
Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1944
Place of Birth: New Iberia, Louisiana, United States
Date of Death: 14-Dec-2013
Profession: painter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About George Rodrigue
- George Rodrigue (March 13, 1944 – December 14, 2013) was an American artist originally from New Iberia, Louisiana, who in the late 1960s began painting Louisiana landscapes, followed soon after by outdoor family gatherings and southwest Louisiana 19th-century and early 20th-century genre scenes.
- His paintings often include moss-clad oak trees, which are common to an area of French Louisiana known as Acadiana.
- In the mid-1990s Rodrigue's Blue Dog paintings, based on a Cajun legend called Loup-garou, catapulted him to worldwide fame. His funeral mass was open to the public, held at St.
- Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square, New Orleans.
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