Humility behold Ernie Barnes' Singin' Sistahs is

Ernie Barnes' Singin' Sistahs is a work of art of 3 shapely black women each wearing a red dress singing into a single microphone

5 x 25 inches

short for "break-boy

that there were some not-so-kind

Painted in 1971

Humility behold Ernie Barnes' Singin' Sistahs isThe tranquil and overwhelming presence of the spirit of God humbles even the greatest of men. In this highly emotional and subtle work by Kadir Nelson, the spirit of God, represented by the natural elements (earth, wind and sea) surrounds a man in his most natural state. The fire in his heart is calmed by the vastness of God's earth. A circling flock of birds above represent his spirit, intertwined and soaring in unison with this devine energy,