LITHOGRAPHIC SUITE OF PRELIMINARY PAINTINGS by Carl Barks
Set II 
Another Rainbow 1989

A History of the Edition :

1. Among His Souvenirs
oil on watercolor board, 10" x 8": First of two similar idea sketches,
reworked because Scrooge did not figure prominently enough, and eventually abandoned
because of the pose's similarity to the previously released lithograph, An Embarrassment of Riches.

2. Money Lake
oil on watercolor board, 7" x 8 ¾": Inspired by the cover to Uncle Scrooge Comics FC 386 (#1),
this variation to a theme that Barks painted many times was never done for a lithograph.

3. In Uncle Walt's Collectory
opaque watercolors on paper, 9"x 9": Barks describes this as an "early concept of the 'collectery' subject,
which was first conceived as a cover for a Disneyana book."

4. Trail of the Forty Thieves
canvas glued to Masonite, 12 ½" x 10": Second of two variations, in Barks' words,
"begun in an effort to put the ducks in the mysterious Arabian desert.
Somehow the mirage of ancient Baghdad never quite became the diaphanous, shimmering illusion I wanted to portray."

5. Sheriff of Bullet Valley
oil on Masonite, 11"x 8 ¾": Barks describes this revision of the original comic book cover to Donald Duck FC 199 from 1948:
"The staging here is pure Hollywood horse opera with Donald walking toward the camera."
Alternately titled The Law Comes to Bullet Valley,
Barks suggests a version of this "might be restaged with the background showing a western cow town
complete with a newly robbed bank that proprietor, Scrooge McDuck, is bewailing mightily."

6. Stamp Collectors' Bad Moment
oil on' Masonite, 12" x 9 ¾": "An idea that progressed no farther than this experimental sketch,"
Barks felt it was "obvious that only those viewers who had read the Gilded Man story of 1952
could under­stand what the ducks are doing and why. No title could quite explain all that."

7. First National Bank of Cibola
oil on Masonite, 13"x 10 ½": Finally released in 1987, Barks speaks of this preliminary study.
"The lower third seemed a little overloaded.
I adjusted the final version to let a bit of background blue show through below Uncle Scrooge's right arm."

8. Trespassers Will Be Ventilated
oil on Masonite, 9 5/8" x 12": A. preliminary that "fell together" on his first try,
this composition possibly follows the final oil more closely than any other that Barks has attempted.

9. The Makings of a Fish Story
oil on Masonite, 13 3/8" x 10 ½": Barks says of this enormously popular effort, that "most of the subject's problems
were worked out in this preliminary. The mermaid, however, is more fish-faced than in the final large painting."

10. Return to Plain Awful
oil on Masonite, 11 ¾" x 14 ¾": The first concept of "this seemingly simple composition"
worked out the more difficult aspects of setting up Scrooge's return
to the famous square-egg site of the Donald Duck adventure, "Lost in the Andes."

 
Mappe (s. Abbildung) mit zehn Vorstudien zu Ölgemälden von Carl Barks, entstanden zwischen 1983 und 1988.
Bildgrößen zwischen 18 x 22 cm und 30 x 37,5 cm
Limitiert auf 500 Exemplare
Mit Echtheitszertifikat, signiert von Carl Barks
Außerdem ist jeder Druck von Barks mit " C.B. " handsigniert

Foil embossed folder, holding a collection of ten pre-painting oils and watercolors by Carl Barks. Done between 1983 - 1988.
Limited to 500 copies. Size between 18 x 20 and 27 x 34 cm. 
With Certificate of Authenticity, signed by Carl Barks. 
There is an extra C.B. signature on every single litho.

Carl Barks was a careful craftsman, who liked to work out details of composition and color as preliminary "idea sketches'
­usually in oil on Masonite at about 25% the size of a planned oil painting -
when he embarked on each lithograph project.
Sometimes he abandoned them as unworkable or inappropriate, or perhaps occasionally just lost interest.
In other cases, it might have taken him two or three tries just to get his concept close enough
to what he wanted before he felt comfortable tackling the final painting.

In 1986 Another Rainbow released ten of these, reproduced as four-color offset prints, usually the exact size they were painted.
In 1989 AR did the same thing with a second Preliminary Suite :
500 prints have been produced by Imperial Litho/Graphics of Phoenix.
Each set comes in an attractive 17 ½"x 15 ¼" portfolio folder designed for this release.
Enclosed is a "History of the Edition" that details pertinent information and Carl's own comments on the Preliminaries.
Each print has been initialed and Barks' full signature is on the numbered Certificate of Authenticity.
The individual prints and COA are suitable for framing.