Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream
Title:  Little Girl in a Shot Gun House 
Year Painted: 2004
Type: Mixed Media:  Acrylic on Wood encased by mesh
Dimension: L 17” (43 cm) W 16” (40.6 cm)
Weight 6.6lbs (3kgs)
Price: 5,000

Description:  Sometimes called the "shotgun shack", "shotgun hut" and "shotgun cottage", a "shotgun house" is a narrow rectangular house, usually no more than 12 feet (3.5 m) wide, with rooms arranged one behind the other and doors at each end of the house.  They have open hallways from front to back to permit full circulation of air and to provide cooling from the heat.  To keep out mosquitoes and bugs, the doors often have an inner or outer mesh casing.  It was the most popular style of house in the south and southwest from the end of the Civil War(1861–65), through the 1920s.  The style is believed to be of African and Haitian influences and first emerged in house design in New Orleans.  Though initially as popular with the middle class as with the poor, today, shotgun house generally signals the start of the poor part of town.   

In Shreveport Louisiana, we can see straight through the shotgun house from the front door to the back, as a little girl sits on a rocking chair in the center of the hallway reading her book and feasting on her chocolate ice cream.


Ice Cream paintings in the black art gallery, featuring, the Spirit of Paris, black Paris and Paris Noir stories, history of black expatriates in Paris, ethnic posters & prints, and other African American merchandise & artwork online.
New York Super Fudge Chunk at Ben and Jerry's
Chocolate Decadence
Adults and children took pleasure in creating their own specialty desserts. This is one child's dessert at the restaurant.
A young boy eating an ice cream cone.
A young boy enjoying an ice cream cone.
A young boy enjoying an ice cream cone.
A young boy eating an ice cream cone.
Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream
Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream
Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream
See photo in original gallery.