football

by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Sep 6, 2019 • 11:58 pm LOS ANGELES—A master storyteller, Ernie Barnes (1938-2009) painted from experience. He captured the brawn of football and the quotidian of life in the segregated South.  His representational images depict what he saw growing up in Durham, N.C., where black people gathered for communion and competition on porches and basketball…