Head Over Heels
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Head Over Heels is an African-American work of art by Ernie Barnes depicting 2 black men flipping backward off of mattresses while a third runs through the grass.
Description
Head Over Heels is an African-American work of art by Ernie Barnes depicting 2 black men flipping backward off of mattresses while a third runs through the grass.
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.
