The Art of George RodrigueBorn and raised in the heart of French Louisiana, artist George Rodrigue (b. 1944) is best known for his Blue Dog paintings, which catapulted him to worldwide fame in the mid 1980s. Rodrigue, who began painting in the third grade while bedridden with polio, had already won local acclaim for his rich portrayals of the landscape and people he grew up with when Blue Dog transformed the image of the original Cajun werewolf dog the loup garou into an