Now, an exhibit has opened in his home state titled “The North Carolina Roots of Artist Ernie Barnes.” The exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of History includes 38 paintings by Barnes ...

It was football, not art that would be Barnes’ first ticket to success. His football scholarship at North Carolina "Porch Ladies" by Ernie Barnes. The Durham native was a shy child and used to ...

Ernie Barnes’ 1976 painting The ... was inspired by Barnes’ memories of his childhood North Carolina hometown and is painted in the style that has come to be known as Black Romantic.

Ernie Barnes’ masterpiece ... in the mid-20th century in segregated North Carolina. It also has several other pop culture connections. The art work was featured on the cover of Marvin ...

"The Sugar Shack," the iconic Ernie Barnes painting also on the ... a dance hall in segregated North Carolina, in 1952. Barnes, who died of leukemia in 2009 at age 70, said in a 2002 interview ...