Charlie Patton Metal Print

metal prints portrait charlie patton charley patton mississippi mississippi delta mississippi delta blues blues blues legends blues guitarist dockery farms

paintings portrait charlie patton charley patton mississippi mississippi delta mississippi delta blues blues blues legends blues guitarist dockery farms

Add This Artwork to Your Favorites Collection

Comment

Add This Artwork to Your Favorites Collection

Comment

Considered one of the first great Blues musicians, Charlie Patton was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, eventually home basing himself out of Dockery Farms, between Cleveland, MS and Ruleville, MS. Dockery was a huge operation with its own store, church, and even money. The coin in the lower left is what it looked like. Dockery even had a railroad station. That train went to Boyle MS, and the folks in the area called it the Pea Vine because it didn't go in a straight line. The Blues musicians would take the Pea Vine to Boyle, and other trains to points distant. Charlie Patton wrote a song Called "Pea Vine Blues" about that train ride. I live in Boyle, and it's just a 15 minute ride out to Dockery... This is the third in my series on the Delta Blues musicians. There is only one known photo of Charlie Patton

God gave me the talent to paint and draw. I am blessed with the ability to visualize stories, or moments in time, and then to recreate them for others to see what I saw in my mind. I have in some form or fashion painted for a living my whole life. I started out hand painting billboards as a pictorial artist (back when they were painted), and have done everything from fine art to theatrical backdrops, sets, and film and TV. I also hand painted art on furniture (for a major maufacturer) for a few years. I even did a few barns with See Rock City on them... My art focuses on what I may feel is memorable at the moment. A snapshot in time, or something that may be disappearing, or maybe just an emotional moment in life. So it may be...