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Mother Heart -Art Print
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MOM IS with Lady Standing
Size 19″ x 13″
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My Dad Is with Baby Carriage
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Fastbreak
by Ernie Barnes
Limited Edition Signed and Numbered
Serigraph /Hand Signed
Edition 475
Size 21.75″ x 36.75″ Approx
Ernest “Ernie” Eugene Barnes, Jr. (July 15, 1938 – April 27, 2009) was an African-American painter, well known for his unique style of elongation and movement. He was also a professional football player, actor and author.
Ernie Barnes’ involvement with art began at an early age, like most gifted adult artists. However, when he reached high school his creative endeavors were temporarily detoured in his determination to become a successful athlete. In part this was a response to the demands of peer pressure which can be so strong at that age. He graduated from his high school a hero and star football player, and with 26 full athletic scholarships to choose from. He chose North Carolina Central University and a major in art. After college he continued in an illustrious professional athletic career, but never let his love for football overshadow his love for art. Football gave him an enormous satisfaction of achievement, of being able to do something extremely difficult, and do it well. Art, however, allowed him the privilege to interpret for the public his concepts of the relationship between art and life.
In 1966 Ernie Barnes retired from football to commit himself to his art. His athletic career made a special contribution to his sensibility and his art, and he often weds physical with artistic expression. Many of his subjects are satirical and he uses exaggeration, and even caricature, to enhance their mood, humor and physical vitality. Seen through Barnes’ dramatic-comic vision, human figures play out their roles in a contemporary scenario in a manner that is both entertaining and finely executed. It can easily be said that Barnes has more than established himself as one among America’s leading contemporary painters.
Barnes credits his college art instructor Ed Wilson for laying the foundation for his development as an artist. Wilson was a sculptor who instructed Barnes to paint from his own life experiences. “He made me conscious of the fact that the artist who is useful to America is one who studies his own life and records it through the medium of art, manners and customs of his own experiences.”
All his life, Barnes was ambivalent about his football experience. In interviews and in personal appearances, Barnes said he hated the violence and the physical torment of the sport. However, his years as an athlete gave him unique, in-depth observations. “(Wilson) told me to pay attention to what my body felt like in movement. Within that elongation, there’s a feeling. And attitude and expression. I hate to think had I not played sports what my work would look like.”
Barnes’ first painting sale was in 1959 for $90 to Boston Celtic Sam Jones for a painting called Slow Dance. It was subsequently lost in a fire at Jones’ home.
Critics have defined Barnes’ work as neo-mannerist. Based on his signature use of serpentine lines, elongation of the human figure, clarity of line, unusual spatial relationships, painted frames, and distinctive color palettes, art critic Frank Getlein credited Barnes as the founder of the neo-Mannerism movement – because of the similarity of technique and composition prevalent during the 16th century, as practiced by such masters as Michelangelo and Raphael.
Numerous artists have been influenced by Barnes’ art and unique style. Accordingly, several copyright infringement lawsuits have been settled and are currently pending.
Barnes created the painting Sugar Shack in the early 1970s. It gained international exposure when it was used on the Good Times television series and on a 1976 Marvin Gaye album.
Sports Art
In 1984 Barnes was appointed the Official Sports Artist for the Games of the XXIII Olympiad. Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee President Peter V. Ueberroth said Barnes “captured the essence of the Olympics” and “portray the city’s ethnic diversity, the power and emotion of sports competition, the singleness of purpose and hopes that go into the making of athletes the world over.” Barnes was commissioned to create five Olympic-themed paintings and serve as an official Olympic spokesman to encourage inner city youth.
In 1985 Barnes was named the first Sports Artist of the Year by the United States Sports Academy.
In 1987 Barnes created Fastbreak, a commissioned painting of the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers basketball team that included Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy, Kurt Rambis and Michael Cooper.
In 1996 Carolina Panthers football team owners Rosalind and Jerry Richardson (Barnes’ former Colts teammate) commissioned Barnes to create the large painting Victory in Overtime (approximately 7 ft. x 14 ft.). It was unveiled before the team’s inaugural season and hangs permanently in the stadium owner’s suite.
To commemorate their 50th anniversary in 1996, the National Basketball Association commissioned Barnes to create a painting with the theme, “Where we were, where we are, and where we are going.” The painting, The Dream Unfolds hangs in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. A limited edition of lithographs were made, with the first 50 prints going to each of the NBA’s 50th Anniversary All-Time Team.
In 2004 Barnes was named America’s Best Painter of Sports by the American Sport Art Museum & Archives.
Other notable sports commissions include paintings for the New Orleans Saints, Oakland Raiders and Boston Patriots football team owners.
Sugar Shack
According to Barnes, he created the original version of Sugar Shack after reflecting upon his childhood, during which he was not “able to go to a dance.” In a 2008 interview, Barnes said, “Sugar Shack is a recall of a childhood experience. It was the first time my innocence met with the sins of dance. The painting transmits rhythm so the experience is re-created in the person viewing it. To show that African-Americans utilize rhythm as a way of resolving physical tension.”[27] The Sugar Shack has been known to art critics for embodying the style of art composition known as “Black Romantic,” which, according to Natalie Hopkinson of The Washington Post, is the “visual-art equivalent of the Chitlin’ circuit.”
On the original Sugar Shack, Barnes included his hometown Durham, North Carolina radio station WSRC on a banner. He incorrectly listed the frequency at 620. It was actually 1410. Barnes confused what he used to hear WSRC’s on-air personality Norfley Whitted saying “620 on your dial” when Whitted was at his former station WDNC in the early 1950s.
After Marvin Gaye asked him for permission to use the painting as an album cover, Barnes then augmented the painting by adding references that allude to Gaye’s album, including banners hanging from the ceiling to promote the album’s singles.
During the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever anniversary television special on March 25, 1983, tribute was paid to Sugar Shack with a dance interpretation of the painting.
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Winter’s Glow
Size 19″ x 13″
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Its Just The Music Inside Fifteen
by Don Stephens
Original Acrylic on Canvas
Size 16″ x 20″
Donald Stephens resides in Burlington County NJ since 1987. He has attended Burlington County College obtaining an AAS 90’. Mr. Stephens then furthered his yearning for the arts at Temple University Tyler School of the Arts, where he has achieved his BFA 96’; simultaneously completing a full term in the United States Marine Corps Reserve as a Communicator. Lately, he has displayed his work in various locations in the Delaware Valley area and Northern New Jersey Area. To add, the role of Artist/Instructor/Lecturer has been carefully added to his list of creative skill; teaching in the area art centers of Southern NJ: Markiem Art Center, Perkins Art Center, Burlington County College Community Enrichment, Art Teacher at Garfield Park Academy and several other locations throughout the New Jersey , Philadelphia area. Mr. Stephens’s unique expressive quality enables him to create in several modes of material manipulation from wet to dry but has a deep passion for charcoal drawing. Within his observations Donald has formulated his own visual syntax that has been described as expressive, informative and imaginative simply by maneuvering material and experiences to convey a certain moment in time and space.
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Bar Two
by Luide Araújo – Brazilian
Original Acrylic on Canvas Framed
Size 8″ x 8″ Approx
Luide Araújo was born and raised in the neighborhood of Candeal, Salvador. At the age of 20 he managed to secure work in a gallery owned by the family of the renowned artist, Carybé, where he became a devoted student. Luide has painted over 200 works and participated in seven exhibitions in areas as diverse as Bogotá, Columbia, and the ‘Museu do Ritmo’ and Grande Hotel da Barra in Salvador.
In continuing the exploration of his artistic talents Luide has developed a unique style blending personal life experiences with his vision of the environment in which he lives. His initial works clearly show the influence of his mentor, Carybé, especially in relation to their themes and the naive style. Luide’s bairro, Candeal, features regularly in his paintings where its most famous resident, the musician Carlinhos Brown, often makes a cameo appearance.
More recently Luide has been delving into his relationship with the afro-brazilian religion, Candomblé, producing works in the Yorubá tradition, reflecting the diverse personalities of the Orixás (Candomblé divinities) as well as the spirituality they bring to our daily lives. The motive for creating such art stems partly from reverence but also, for Luide, a personal exploration where the paintings serve to educate and indeed share something that Candomble gives to all of us – a sense of unity with mother nature. The message is that we need to be respectful, but at the same time we should enjoy the marvels omnipresent in the natural world.
In spite of the strong decorative quality of Luide’s work he manages to avoid the superficiality that often accompanies the decorative. His art is distinctive and shuns complexity, yet it remains profound in its simplicity, seducing us and inviting us to open up our imagination. Luide is at pains to point out that producing this work is not an easy process – it involves creating and recreating, pursuing the essence of the image he is attempting to convey.
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Music Legends
Size 11″ x 8.5″
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Mother and Child
by Ellen Powell-Tiberino
Open Edition Offset Print
Size 8.5″ x 11″
Posted: March 01, 1992
Ellen Powell-Tiberino, Philadelphia’s most prominent and prolific black female artist whose paintings reflected the rawness and grace of life, died Friday at her home after a 14-year battle with cancer. She was in her early 50s.
Mrs. Tiberino, who worked out of her Powelton Village home, was a non- apologetic artist who forced the viewer to examine what was moving in the ordinary, such as her painting of an aging, overweight dancer who still seemed to glide effortlessly.
“I paint life, and life is not always beautiful,” she said in a 1988 interview.
In recent years, she did many pastel and pencil works from her hospital bed. “She never stopped working,” said Evelyn Redcross, a friend and one of the principals of the October Gallery in the city. “Her hospital rooms were full of pictures. She really fought the fight. She’s a strong character and she prevailed as long as she could. Few people could match her courage.
“Her work was very dramatic. She very often was able to show you the other side of midnight. She was able to show you the sides of life that you may not want to deal with.”
An example was the three-dimensional, seven-foot relief sculpture that she and her artist-husband, Joseph Tiberino, did after the 1985 MOVE tragedy in which five children died. The work depicts a wailing child whose hair is on fire and the image of former Mayor W. Wilson Goode near a mask of death. Her works also included depictions of lynchings and other painful remembrances of black rural and urban history.
Paul Grillo, academic coordinator of Tyler School of Art at Temple University, said yesterday, “Ellen’s work stands at the forefront of not just African American art, but as a lyrical representation of the arts of the 20th century. She rendered the human form with almost botanical richness of color and detail and, conversely, allowed natural organic forms to be rendered as almost human.”
Mrs. Tiberino’s works – which encompassed oils, pastels, pencils and bas- relief sculpture – sometimes evoked controvery and criticism. Commenting on her work in an interview several years ago, she said, “It reaches people, no matter whether the person likes it or hates it – either way, it’s successful.”
Mrs. Tiberino grew up in the city’s Mantua section. She converted to Catholicism at 13 and won a scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. While there, she became the second black woman to win the prestigious Cresson Traveling Scholarship, which took her to Europe.
She returned to Philadelphia, and in later years, her Powelton Village home – which is full of paintings, sculptures and other works by her and her husband – became a place where artists met. Fellow artist Roland Ayers has said of Mrs. Tiberino’s works: “She’s a very painterly painter. She handles paint the way they did in the 16th, 17th centuries. The work has a feeling of light from within.”
But Mrs. Tiberino, who in 1977 became the first artist to have a one-person exhibition at the city’s Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, also knew the somber side. One of her paintings, The Operation, which Redcross says was inspired by Mrs. Tiberino’s cancer, shows surgeons standing over a body. The black and white painting also depicts two skeletons, representing death, who seem to be gossiping over the body.
“When I am asked where I get my inspiration,” Mrs. Tiberino said in 1988, ”I say it’s all my life, my friends, everything I’ve seen and known and I want to make it all come together and make sense and make people see. There’s a feeling of joy that comes with it.”
Surviving are her husband; daughter, Ellen; sons, Raphael, Leonardo and Gabriel; her mother, two sisters and three brothers.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Agatha and St. James Church at 38th and Chestnut Streets. There will be a viewing before the service.
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Perfect Day
by Ellen Powell-Tiberino
Open Edition Offset Print
Size 8.5″ x 11″
Posted: March 01, 1992
Ellen Powell-Tiberino, Philadelphia’s most prominent and prolific black female artist whose paintings reflected the rawness and grace of life, died Friday at her home after a 14-year battle with cancer. She was in her early 50s.
Mrs. Tiberino, who worked out of her Powelton Village home, was a non- apologetic artist who forced the viewer to examine what was moving in the ordinary, such as her painting of an aging, overweight dancer who still seemed to glide effortlessly.
“I paint life, and life is not always beautiful,” she said in a 1988 interview.
In recent years, she did many pastel and pencil works from her hospital bed. “She never stopped working,” said Evelyn Redcross, a friend and one of the principals of the October Gallery in the city. “Her hospital rooms were full of pictures. She really fought the fight. She’s a strong character and she prevailed as long as she could. Few people could match her courage.
“Her work was very dramatic. She very often was able to show you the other side of midnight. She was able to show you the sides of life that you may not want to deal with.”
An example was the three-dimensional, seven-foot relief sculpture that she and her artist-husband, Joseph Tiberino, did after the 1985 MOVE tragedy in which five children died. The work depicts a wailing child whose hair is on fire and the image of former Mayor W. Wilson Goode near a mask of death. Her works also included depictions of lynchings and other painful remembrances of black rural and urban history.
Paul Grillo, academic coordinator of Tyler School of Art at Temple University, said yesterday, “Ellen’s work stands at the forefront of not just African American art, but as a lyrical representation of the arts of the 20th century. She rendered the human form with almost botanical richness of color and detail and, conversely, allowed natural organic forms to be rendered as almost human.”
Mrs. Tiberino’s works – which encompassed oils, pastels, pencils and bas- relief sculpture – sometimes evoked controvery and criticism. Commenting on her work in an interview several years ago, she said, “It reaches people, no matter whether the person likes it or hates it – either way, it’s successful.”
Mrs. Tiberino grew up in the city’s Mantua section. She converted to Catholicism at 13 and won a scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. While there, she became the second black woman to win the prestigious Cresson Traveling Scholarship, which took her to Europe.
She returned to Philadelphia, and in later years, her Powelton Village home – which is full of paintings, sculptures and other works by her and her husband – became a place where artists met. Fellow artist Roland Ayers has said of Mrs. Tiberino’s works: “She’s a very painterly painter. She handles paint the way they did in the 16th, 17th centuries. The work has a feeling of light from within.”
But Mrs. Tiberino, who in 1977 became the first artist to have a one-person exhibition at the city’s Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, also knew the somber side. One of her paintings, The Operation, which Redcross says was inspired by Mrs. Tiberino’s cancer, shows surgeons standing over a body. The black and white painting also depicts two skeletons, representing death, who seem to be gossiping over the body.
“When I am asked where I get my inspiration,” Mrs. Tiberino said in 1988, ”I say it’s all my life, my friends, everything I’ve seen and known and I want to make it all come together and make sense and make people see. There’s a feeling of joy that comes with it.”
Surviving are her husband; daughter, Ellen; sons, Raphael, Leonardo and Gabriel; her mother, two sisters and three brothers.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Agatha and St. James Church at 38th and Chestnut Streets. There will be a viewing before the service.
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Heart of the Day
by Ellen Powell-Tiberino
Open Edition Offset Print
Size 8.5″ x 11″
Posted: March 01, 1992
Ellen Powell-Tiberino, Philadelphia’s most prominent and prolific black female artist whose paintings reflected the rawness and grace of life, died Friday at her home after a 14-year battle with cancer. She was in her early 50s.
Mrs. Tiberino, who worked out of her Powelton Village home, was a non- apologetic artist who forced the viewer to examine what was moving in the ordinary, such as her painting of an aging, overweight dancer who still seemed to glide effortlessly.
“I paint life, and life is not always beautiful,” she said in a 1988 interview.
In recent years, she did many pastel and pencil works from her hospital bed. “She never stopped working,” said Evelyn Redcross, a friend and one of the principals of the October Gallery in the city. “Her hospital rooms were full of pictures. She really fought the fight. She’s a strong character and she prevailed as long as she could. Few people could match her courage.
“Her work was very dramatic. She very often was able to show you the other side of midnight. She was able to show you the sides of life that you may not want to deal with.”
An example was the three-dimensional, seven-foot relief sculpture that she and her artist-husband, Joseph Tiberino, did after the 1985 MOVE tragedy in which five children died. The work depicts a wailing child whose hair is on fire and the image of former Mayor W. Wilson Goode near a mask of death. Her works also included depictions of lynchings and other painful remembrances of black rural and urban history.
Paul Grillo, academic coordinator of Tyler School of Art at Temple University, said yesterday, “Ellen’s work stands at the forefront of not just African American art, but as a lyrical representation of the arts of the 20th century. She rendered the human form with almost botanical richness of color and detail and, conversely, allowed natural organic forms to be rendered as almost human.”
Mrs. Tiberino’s works – which encompassed oils, pastels, pencils and bas- relief sculpture – sometimes evoked controvery and criticism. Commenting on her work in an interview several years ago, she said, “It reaches people, no matter whether the person likes it or hates it – either way, it’s successful.”
Mrs. Tiberino grew up in the city’s Mantua section. She converted to Catholicism at 13 and won a scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. While there, she became the second black woman to win the prestigious Cresson Traveling Scholarship, which took her to Europe.
She returned to Philadelphia, and in later years, her Powelton Village home – which is full of paintings, sculptures and other works by her and her husband – became a place where artists met. Fellow artist Roland Ayers has said of Mrs. Tiberino’s works: “She’s a very painterly painter. She handles paint the way they did in the 16th, 17th centuries. The work has a feeling of light from within.”
But Mrs. Tiberino, who in 1977 became the first artist to have a one-person exhibition at the city’s Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, also knew the somber side. One of her paintings, The Operation, which Redcross says was inspired by Mrs. Tiberino’s cancer, shows surgeons standing over a body. The black and white painting also depicts two skeletons, representing death, who seem to be gossiping over the body.
“When I am asked where I get my inspiration,” Mrs. Tiberino said in 1988, ”I say it’s all my life, my friends, everything I’ve seen and known and I want to make it all come together and make sense and make people see. There’s a feeling of joy that comes with it.”
Surviving are her husband; daughter, Ellen; sons, Raphael, Leonardo and Gabriel; her mother, two sisters and three brothers.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Agatha and St. James Church at 38th and Chestnut Streets. There will be a viewing before the service.
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Lovin’ The Skin I’m In
by Jeffrey Glenn Reese
Open Edition Offset Poster
Size 13″ x 19″
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Mystic Trumpet
Size 19″ x 13″
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Never Be Afraid
Size 19″ x 13″
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Lady in Red by Don Stephens
Size 19″ x 13″
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