Blue Dog

The baleful, blue-tinged terrier, with beseeching yellow eyes, became Rodrigue’s signature symbol.  It led him to become Louisiana’s best-known visual artist.

Veterans Memorial Boulevard drivers waiting for the light to change at Severn Avenue craned their necks as an enormous sculpture of a well-known canine swayed in the breeze above the median earlier this January. The crane operator gently lowered the 800-pound aluminum creation, valued at $750,000, onto a waiting post, and with some tugging by the man in the bucket lift, a 16-foot-tall version of George Rodrigue’s loup-garou, better known as the Blue Dog, clanked into place. 

Since its instillation, the Blue Dog has donned black and gold during the Saint's football rise and now "Save The Gulf" symbolism.  Gotta love Rogrique's creativity!