In his lifetime, Ernie Barnes was largely dismissed and ignored by the industry. He became an icon anyway. By Adam Bradley IN THE 1970S, buying a print of Ernie Barnes’s “The Sugar Shack ...

On May 16, Heritage Auctions continued to prove its strength in the American Art category with back-to-back, tightly curated events that together netted $12.18 million: The American Art auction, ...

By Will Heinrich The second thing you notice about an Ernie Barnes painting might be its vibrant color scheme. Anchored in earthy reds and browns, it perfectly complements the artist’s virtuosic ...

Few, if any, artists’ markets have blown up in 2022 like that of the late Ernie Barnes—and ... a friend of Barnes who commissioned the artwork and is shown belting into a microphone.

Up first is Ernie Barnes, well-known artist and former Chargers offensive lineman. Born in Durham, North Carolina during the height of the Jim Crow era, Barnes is known as the first (and possibly only ...

An iconic painting by renowned Durham artist Ernie Barnes is on display at the Mint Museum Uptown. The artwork depicts a lively night at a Black dance hall in the segregated South of the early 1950s.

“Ernie Barnes: Where Music and Soul Live,” offers up the next best thing. The exhibition, which opens Wednesday at UTA Artist Space Los Angeles, is a survey of the artist’s music-inspired works ...