Old-school cloth banners drape across the facade of an unassuming, single-story building on a Beverly Hills side street. The central sign, meant to look hand-painted, welcomes visitors to “The Sugar ...

Professionally, Ernie Barnes was a football player for the NFL. Creatively, he was a painter. He switched careers and reinvented himself in the 1960s; the civil rights movement was breaking through, ...

*The works of American painter Ernie Barnes are experiencing a comeback like that of no other artist of the last decade. “Almost like a more modern Thomas Hart Benton or El Greco,” says Aviva Lehmann, ...

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 Marvin ...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores the "revelation and inspiration" of late artist Ernie Barnes' new at Los Angeles' California African American Museum. By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Contributing Editor Art has a ...

The iconic Earnie Barnes painting The ‘Sugar Shack’ familiar to millions as it was featured in the TV sitcom ‘Good Times’ and on Marvin Gaye’s Album cover of his 1976 release ‘I Want You’, sold to ...

Few, if any, artists’ markets have blown up in 2022 like that of the late Ernie Barnes—and a sale today only continued the streak. During a dedicated single-lot auction at Bonhams New York, a 1993 ...

The famous 1976 painting by ex-NFL player Ernie Barnes, The Sugar Shack, known to fans of the popular sitcom Good Times during its opening credits, was sold in a New York auction on Thursday for a ...

A painting by artist and former NFL player Ernie Barnes stole the show at Christie’s 20th century evening sale last week. Fierce competition for the 1976 work, The Sugar Shack, drove the price up to ...