Ernie Barnes’s famous masterpiece, The Sugar Shack, is on loan to the Blanton Museum of Art for a full year from Houston collectors Bill and Lara Perkins, who acquired it at a record-smashing auction last year for $15.3 million! The Sugar Shack became a Black cultural icon after the first version was featured on the cover of the 1976 Marvin Gaye album, I Want You. That same year, Barnes created this second version, which garnered wider fame when it was added to the end credits of the groundbreak
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Ernie Barnes’ ‘The Sugar Shack’ is the image of a memory. At just 13 years old, the now legendary American painter Ernie Barnes snuck into the Armory engendering a memory of music and movement that would inspire the creation of ‘The Sugar Shack’ 24 years later. On this transformative adolescent experience, Barnes remarked, “It was the first time my innocence met with the sins of dance…” In ‘The Sugar Shack’ Barnes epitomizes the rapture that can result from the power of music and image. As such,
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