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Carl Barks: Paintings and Drawings 1966-1971 |
By the time Carl Barks retired in 1966, he had spent more than
thirty-five years drawing the Disney Ducks and was ready for something
new. But if he was no longer “the old duck man,” the professional
cartoonist turning out hundreds of comic-book pages a year, then who was
he? He began painting full-time and would spend the next five years
trying to find an answer. Between 1966 and early 1971, Barks completed
over 179 paintings exploring an astonishing number of subjects:
churches, landscapes, Soboba Indian churches, Ramona scenes, ancient
Native Americans, ranch girls, little girls, and more. 146 of those
paintings are reproduced here, many for the first time. These paintings,
a record of his search for a new artistic identity, are from the only
period of Barks’ lifetime of work that hasn’t been fully explored –
until now. |
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