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May 13, 2022 · “The Sugar Shack,” the dance-hall painting made famous for appearing in the credits of the 1970s sitcom “Good Times,” sold at auction Thursday for a record-breaking $15.2 million.
- nardine.saad@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Aug 28, 2019 · In the 1970s, producer Norman Lear commissioned Barnes to create original paintings for the Jimmie Walker character J.J. in “Good Times,” the sitcom about a black family living in a Chicago ...
May 19, 2022 · The Black Romantic masterwork featured in the fourth season opening and closing credits for Good Times (and as the album cover for Marvin Gaye‘s 1976 I Want You) just pulled in 76 times what it ...
Sep 7, 2019 · A pair of vitrines on one side of the room displays Ebony magazines from 1973 and 1998 with coverage of Barnes, a sketch for the movie “Car Wash,” dated 1975, and a circa 1974-75 photography proof sheet with images of the artist with “Good Times” actor Jimmy “JJ” Walker, among other documentary materials. (In addition to “The ...
May 13, 2022 · An iconic painting from the iconic sitcom Good Times just sold for some huge bucks in New York City.. Fans of the popular series, which aired on CBS from 1974 to 1979, are very familiar with Ernie Barnes’ 1976 painting The Sugar Shack as it was featured in the sitcom's opening credits.
- Bre Williams
Jul 13, 2022 · In the 1970s family sitcom Good Times, the character J.J., played by comedian Jimmie Walker, was the oldest child in a working-class Chicago family who, amid his shenanigans, was also an aspiring ...
May 18, 2022 · Ernie Barnes’ iconic painting The Sugar Shack which was depicted in the opening credits of the sitcom Good Times and on Marvin Gaye’s I Want You album, recently sold for $15.2 million, the USA ...
