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The Ernie Barnes Art Gallery - Page 4
Ernest
Eugene Barnes Jr. was born July 15, 1938, in a poor section ("the bottom") of
Durham, North Carolina. His father, Ernest Barnes Sr., worked as a shipping
clerk at Liggett Myers Tobacco Company and his mother, Fannie Mae Geer, was
employed as a domestic for Frank Fuller Jr., a wealthy Southern attorney who
would guide Barnes into the world of art.
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