Suite Louisiana: Family Night at Fred's Pleasure Club by Warrington Colescott
Suite Louisiana: Family Night at Fred's Pleasure Club
Warrington Colescott
Title
Suite Louisiana: Family Night at Fred's Pleasure Club
Artist
Warrington Colescott
1921 - 2018 (biography)Year
1997
Technique
color soft-ground etching, aquatint and drypoint, with relief rolls through stencils
Image Size
13 3/4 x 19 5/16" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
150 of 150
Annotations
pencil dated after signature; titled in lower center and editioned in lower left.
Reference
Chapin 335
Paper
Somerset white wove
State
published
Publisher
Print Club of Albany, New York
Inventory ID
20745
Price
SOLD
Description
The Annual Print for 1996-1997 of the Albany Print Club, Colescott noted about this image: "The subject is a real place in Mamou, Louisiana, a center for Cajun and Zydeco music. Fred's - a bar and honky-tonk of local fame - is widely known for regional music.
On Saturday mornings there is a famous broadcast from Fred's to the entire state and it is the scene of family entertainment and dancing by the local rice and crawfish farmers. The print emerged from sketches made on the premises in 1966."
"The Suite Louisiana" series consists of eleven prints, of which this is the ninth. All feature Louisiana music, history and politics, all filtered through Colescott's unique vision.