LITHOGRAPHIC SUITE OF PRELIMINARY PAINTINGS by Carl Barks
Set I 
Another Rainbow 1986 

A History of the Edition :

1. An Embarrassment of Riches
This is one of eight miniature paintings either conceived by Carl Barks
in his experiments to design a vertical or horizontal money bin,
all of which appear in The Carl Barks Library, Set III, Vol. 1, pp, 61-64.
This is one of the final two preliminaries and closely resembles the finished oil,
Another Rainbow's second lithograph in a series.

2. A 1934 Belchfire Runabout
The Duck Man's commemorative to Donald Duck's 50th birthday,
Barks noted on the back of the original painting that this was an "early concept" of an idea,
adding that "at this point only the ducks and Daisy and Pluto were believed permissible to use.
Other Disney characters were added later.”

3. Return to Morgan's Island
According to Barks, this was a concept that "came easily.”
Scrooge returns with Donald and the nephews to the site of buried pirate treasures
and the pointing Skeleton Tree, a scene visited by the Ducks in the 1942 classic comic book,
“Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold.”

4. Among his Souvenirs
One of two similar idea sketches, both were rejected because of their similarity
to the pose of Uncle Scrooge in the previous oil, An Embarrassment of Riches 

5. Till Death Do Us Part
The Scrooge concept chosen for the company's third lithograph

6. Afoul of the Flying Dutchman
Based on a famous legend and on one of his own comic book stories,
the subject of this preliminary had been treated before in two oil paintings
(see color Plates 21, 22 and 117 in The Fine Art of Walt Disney's Donald Duck by Carl Barks)
and also became a finished lithograph and a slipcase cartoon cover for a set of The Carl Barks Library

7. Which Disney Themepark is This ?
Barks' memorable Terries and Fermies, the earthquake makers, are shown in an underground cavern.
This square-format idea is one of three sketched but never used for the cover of a book on Disneyana collectibles.
The theme was later converted into a different setting to become our fifth lithograph, In Uncle Walt's Collectery.

8. Prosperity posed for Prosperity
An alternate unused Scrooge portrait that was seriously considered for the company's third lithograph

9. Dubious Doings at Dismal Downs
Carefully rendered for Another Rainbow's ninth and fast-selling litho,
this preliminary con­cept is very close to the finished oil,
capturing a moment from the Donald Duck comic story "The Old Castle's Secret.”

10. Dam Disaster at Money Lake
Another unique idea, this preliminary was based on a focal scene from the first issue
of the 1952 Uncle Scrooge comic book and was finished as a lithograph
and was sold as a pair with a reprint of the comic to tell the "Story Behind the Painting.”

The preliminary paintings the Old Duck Man has done as concepts for lithographs
- both those that were then completed and those that were abandoned -
were published by Another Rainbow in 1986,
printed in the traditional four color lithographic screened process
on 80 pound Cover Karma White, a fine paper constructed for strength and longevity.
This archival quality product has exceptional ink holdout, is acid free to resist aging,
and has alkaline buffering to counteract the effects of acids.