It’s the same effect that viewing an Ernie Barnes painting can have — you want ... of “Late Night DJ,” which became the cover of Curtis Mayfield’s 1980 album “Something to Believe ...

Subversion and Santa Claus in His Life's Work at the Frye. We need more radicals like Mr. Curtis today!" someone demands in the fast-filling guest ...

among them Curtis Mayfield, B.B. King and Gaye. Barnes’ father played piano in the family’s Durham, North Carolina, home, and Barnes was so influenced by Dad he framed each painting in ...

Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled (contemporary art) Curtis Barnes, Sr., Dayton Icon (naturalism with abstraction) The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art (material art).

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 ...