I want you marvin gaye album cover

The album's cover artwork adapts neo-mannerist artist Ernie Barnes 's famous painting The Sugar Shack (). I Want You consisted of Gaye's first recorded studio material since his highly successful and well-received album Let's Get It On ().

Barnes augmented the painting to include references to Gaye’s music, and the work became the cover of his “I Want You” album in That same year, Barnes painted a “Sugar Shack”.