The dollar sign, a founding father, an outdoor concert space in Baton Rouge: this seemingly disjointed collection of words are woven together in the story behind a sculpture located in Louisiana’s capital city. Now slightly weathered, with a green patinated surface, the bronze sculpture located near Baton Rouge’s modern downtown library depicts Oliver Pollock. Designed by renowned Baton Rouge sculptor and artist Frank Hayden and installed in 1979 in Galvez Plaza, the sculpture is one of few, if perhaps the only, depictions of this otherwise unknown hero and financier of…
