ernie barnes and pool

[evergruven]

many would recognize ernie's famous "sugar shack" painting (just sold for 15m)
turns out mr. barnes was also a painter of pool scenes, as shown here- pretty cool
(for those interested, his "pool hall" painting- #4 here, just sold for 130k)

 

[hang-the-9]

Nice work there, reminds me a bit of some of the New Yorker art. Wonder if he did any of those.

 

[Quesports]

The Sugar Shack painting is from a dance hall in Durham. I saw a news article on it today.. Nice pool art there. Great find!

 

[King T]

many would recognize ernie's famous "sugar shack" painting (just sold for 15m)
turns out mr. barnes was also a painter of pool scenes, as shown here- pretty cool
(for those interested, his "pool hall" painting- #4 here, just sold for 130k)

Ernie was an incredible Artist and illustrator, his most famous work was on the Marvin Guy album cover "I want you"

Nice post, thanks for sharing!

 

[jay helfert]

Ernie Barnes was an NFL football player before becoming an artist. His early paintings sold for $100 each! Now they are worth tens of thousands. I remember seeing some for sale at a little studio in Venice Beach in the early 1970's. Shame on me for not buying one, but $100 was a lot of money for me back then. Maybe if I had seen a poolroom painting I would have bought it.

 

[lakeman77]

Ernie had incredible amounts of talent.