{"product_id":"gare-barks-paintings-and-drawings-1961-1981-slipcased","title":"GARE BARKS PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS 1961-1981 Slipcased","description":"\u003cp\u003eWife of famed cartoonist Carl Barks, \u003cstrong\u003eGaré\u003c\/strong\u003e brought a cartoonist's vision to her landscape and wildlife paintings. Includes 400+ reproductions, her mid-century modern prints, her drawings and sketches, all 40 greeting cards, and 58-page biography. Garé’s work is wholly unique. Yes, she fits in well with other mid-century modern artists like Robert Woods, but Garé’s paintings come from a cartoonist’s perspective, emphasizing color, clarity, caricature, and simplicity, combined with dramatic light and shadow and an almost abstract use of shape and form. This book collects almost all of them and is  the book that Garé would have wanted to showcase her life's work.\n\nPublisher and painter \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Garvin's\u003c\/strong\u003e first book was \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\"\u003eCarl Barks Paintings and Drawings 1966-1971\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. This new volume, a Kickstarter project, is that book's companion volume. \"My goal is to create a book that captures not just her creative output during the two decades when she was a professional painter, but to explore her creative relationship with her more famous husband, how they influenced each other, and how Carl's growing fame impacted them both. I want Garé's book to sit alongside these other amazing books (\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fine Art of Walt Disney's Donald Duck\u003c\/em\u003e by Carl Barks\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\"\u003eAnimal Quackers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e) to cover the painting output of this amazing couple.\n\n\"I knew the Barkses personally in the 1980s, got painting tips from both of them, and corresponded with them into the 1990s. I thought I knew Garé pretty well, but while researching this book, I discovered I barely knew her at all. Like most collectors of Carl's work, I knew that Garé had lettered some of his comic books, but this was a gross understatement. Between 1953 and 1965, Garé lettered and helped ink 334 stories (not counting the 125 one-pagers) — a total of 3,868 pages of art. That’s a staggering amount of work.\n\n\"To put her contribution into perspective, over the previous ten years — 1942 to 1952 — Carl, on his own, produced 2,030 pages of story and art. So, well over half of his total comic book output was done with Garé’s assistance. And she wasn't just his letterer and inking assistant — she was also a vital part of his story department. For all of this, Garé receives almost no credit — something I hope to change with this book's publication. How many more duck stories do we have today because Garé took on so much of the grunt work? Duck fans owe her a debt of gratitude for that, if nothing else.\n\nThe Barks's story gets more interesting after they retired from comic-book work in 1966, when their roles were reversed. While Carl quickly became famous, that fame wasn’t helping much in terms of income. He became Garé's assistant — stretching canvases for her, framing her paintings, and helping her transport her work to galleries and shows. By 1969, she had become incredibly successful, commanding top prices for her \u003cstrong\u003eredwood and wildlife paintings\u003c\/strong\u003e, which were being published nationally as greeting cards and prints. While Carl struggled to achieve success as a painter (which I cover in my \u003cspan class=\"text-italic\"\u003eCarl\u003c\/span\u003e book), Garé's income supplemented Carl's pension, allowing them to live comfortably.\"\n\nE.B. Boatner Review:\n\n\"Bravo! A book on Garé Barks is long overdue, and I'm glad you're the one tackling it. Your text and the accompanying photos give a reader who might not even know her name the portrait of a vibrant, gifted and unique personality.\n\n\"I never had an inkling of the wealth of Garé's output! I found the book gave a rich background of her early life, and I found your discussions of the back-and-forths between the Barkses as breadwinners go across that no matter what either felt at a given time, there was an underlying solidity, a bond, knowing they each had to have the other's back.\n\n\"I think the detail you give about Garé's early life is not only informative on a personal level, but shows just how clearly and early she had structured her artistic aims. That she had had such important mentors, and that you gave solid backgrounds on their careers illustrates the esteem in which other, established artists held her.\n\n\"The book will be a valuable addition to the whole Barks story. The fact that they worked together doesn't detract from either one, and is an example of simply doing what had to be done at a given time to keep their lives on track. If Garé needed canvases stretched or frames built, Carl did it. If a comic scene needed a myriad lemmings or multi-scaled fish inked, Garé inked, rodent-by-rodent, scale-by-scale; one's drudge work allowing the other to focus on their craft.\" -- E.B. Boatner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59643877359902,"sku":"GAREBH","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/garebh-gare-barks-painting-drawings-book.jpg?v=1784521983","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/gare-barks-paintings-and-drawings-1961-1981-slipcased","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}