Visitors to the Blanton can view The Sugar Shack, Ernie Barnes’s famous masterpiece featuring dancing figures in a crowded Black music hall in segregated mid-century North Carolina.

The painting is on loan to the Blanton from Houston collectors Lara and Bill Perkins, who acquired it at a record-smashing auction last year. It was previously on view 2022-23 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Included with museum admission and Second Saturdays admission. Located in the American Art galleries on the second floor of the museum.