Frenchie's Bar 1934- Juke Joint - Classic Americana Painting - Digital Wall Art

This is one of my favorite images and one of the most iconic examples of true Americana.

This print was created from a source photo of a crossroads juke joint - bar - gas station located in a hamlet called Melrose which was in a cotton-growing region of Louisiana. The photograph was taken in 1934 by a photographer with the Farm Security Agency (FSA), a federal body that commissioned photographers to travel the United States to document America during the difficult times of the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Among the photographers with FSA was Marion Post Walcott, an award winning photographer whose work is now part of the Library of Congress collection.  Little is known about Frenchie's other than it's location on the outskirts of the cotton farms where a large population of the black community lived and worked.  Places like Frenchie's were built on the outskirts so the black community had places of their own during the era of segregation.

Marion Post Walcott's original photo which was used as the source for this art print, is the only known photo of Frenchie's. 

• Digitally Printed. • Printed with a Matte Finish on Heavy Duty Archival Paper • 200 GSM Heavy Weight Paper • Frame is not included.

A NOTE ABOUT DIGITAL ART: Art Prints are created using a combination of AI technology, Procreate (with custom Impasto effect brushes) and Photoshop. Some visual elements in this artwork may have been created using AI technology, and then refined through manual editing in Procreate and/or Photoshop (lettering/signs/logos) to enhance and create the final design.