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 ...

As an NFL player who left the game of football only to become even more successful in a second professional endeavor, Ernie ... inspired by a dance at the Durham Armory, is profound. Barnes ...

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 ...

Gaye had seen several of Barnes' paintings in the back seat of Ernie's car, and it was very soon thereafter that Gaye commissioned an adaptation of the work for his album cover. The painting was ...

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 ...

Ernie Barnes’ 1976 painting The Sugar Shack, familiar to millions of TV viewers for its use during the closing credits of the ’70s sitcom Good Times as well as serving as the album cover of ...