If you only had $15.1 million to spend on Ernie Barnes ... which features Barnes’ signature elongated limbs and free-spirited dancehall composition, was inspired by a childhood memory.

Ernie Barnes’ 1976 painting The Sugar Shack ... elongated as they move to the rhythms of an R&B band, was inspired by Barnes’ memories of his childhood North Carolina hometown and is painted ...

At the California African American Museum’s retrospective dedicated to late artist and former NFL player Ernie Barnes ... type of cultural education.” Inspired by the “Black Is Beautiful ...

“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 ...

An iconic painting by renowned Durham artist Ernie Barnes is on display at ... warm tones.” Barnes' piece was inspired by an experience he had in his childhood. In 1952, Barnes snuck inside ...

DURHAM, N.C. – The 1970s television show “Good Times” was the prism through which many on the 1986 Duke Final Four team knew of African-American painter Ernie ... inspired by the times ...

Ernie Barnes, a former professional football ... There is joy, tension and despair in the canvas, which Barnes once said was inspired by a memory of being barred from attending a dance when ...

“A Celebration of Movement Inspired by Ernie Barnes” on Jan. 25 features North Carolina dance companies who have used Barnes’ paintings as inspiration for their original choreograph ...

Ernest Eugene Barnes ... Ernie would accompany her, and Mr. Fuller invited him to read his vast library collection that included examples of paintings by Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Van Gogh ...