ITEM ID#: Holst01
CASE NUMBER: #08-10054-TUC-JMM
CASE NAME: Holst, David R.

DESCRIPTION OF ITEM: Large 4′ X 5′ framed, limited edition, signed artist’s proof, print of George Rodrigue’s “Moo Cow Blues”, which is one of the Blue Dog Prints. Artist, George Rodrigue was born and raised in New Iberia, Louisiana, the heart of Cajun country. For more than forty years, his work has remained rooted in the familiar milieu of home. One particular Cajun legend, the loup-garou, became the inspiration for the first Blue Dog. Painted for a book of Cajun ghost stories (Bayou, Inkwell, 1984), Rodrigue chose a photo of his studio dog Tiffany who had died several years before as his prototype. Rodrigue painted this first eerie Blue Dog a scruffy, pale grey-blue, with red eyes. Over time, the dog became a friendlier image that left the swamps and cemeteries of Louisiana to seek whatever adventure the artist imagines.