It’s the same effect that viewing an Ernie Barnes painting can have — you want to be inside his soulful depictions of crowded juke joints and dance halls, living it up while getting down.

He became an icon anyway. By Adam Bradley IN THE 1970S, buying a print of Ernie Barnes’s “The Sugar Shack,” the iconic 1976 dance club painting that adorns the cover of Marvin Gaye’s album ...

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, ...

Few, if any, artists’ markets have blown up in 2022 like that of the late Ernie Barnes ... by the public, the painting revels in the kind of kineticism for which Barnes, a onetime NFL player ...

GUEST: Ernie Barnes was a former NFL player ... APPRAISER: Ah, so, about when would you say he got the painting? GUEST: I would say this was probably in the early to mid-'80s.

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 ...

But what the late artist Ernie Barnes created in his acclaimed 1976 painting, "The Sugar Shack," was Black joy. It was born out of the Jim Crow South and brewed from the exuberance of Black life ...

Venus Williams, Serena Williams, and their sister Isha Price have consigned four rare works from acclaimed artist Ernie Barnes as part of a charity auction. The sisters acquired the works directly ...

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.