GUEST: Ernie Barnes was a former NFL player. He played for the Jets. But after football, he found art as being, I guess, part of his livelihood. And we all are familiar with Sugar Shack.
An iconic painting by renowned Durham artist Ernie Barnes is on display at the Mint Museum Uptown. The artwork depicts a lively night at a Black dance hall in the segregated South of the early 1950s.
The renowned work of a Durham, North Carolina artist has returned to the Tar Heel State. Ernie Barnes' "The Sugar Shack" painting is now on view at the Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte, the first ...