Post by alquackskey on Apr 11, 2024 15:38:37 GMT
I'm currently waist-deep in Walt Disney's (Mickey Mouse Club) Magazine, a bi-monthly created at Disney for Western between 1956 and 1959. It features much of Disney's top-level talent from that time, and is edited by the same folks who oversaw Barks' work. The magazine constantly crosses over between fact and fiction, with many an informative article being written from an invented character's point-of-view, and fictional accounts of Disney movies presented as true by the heroes that feature in them. Mickey and Minnie serve as honorary editors.
Now why is this relevant to this thread? The April 1957 issue has an article called "A Gallery of Ducks" on the "Gallery of Old Masters" series of paintings that were created by a couple of studio artists in the late '30s. The conceit of the article is that the paintings represent DUCK ANCESTORS hanging in McDuck manor. That's not the original intention for the paintings, but something invented for this article.
You decide whether we want them in the family tree, I'm just here to provide the story.
The following relatives are identified:
"The Blue Duck" by Gainsborough (no name given)
"Pinkie Daisy" by Lawrence (no name given)
Margot Duck by Matisse
Jiacobo Duck of Venice, by Tintoretto (mirrored)
Hans van der Duck of Amsterdam, by Hals
Joos van Duck by Matsys
Two Duck sisters by Degas (no names given)
The two sisters are reportedly the first in Donald's family to have "a real career" in the theater, because of course Donald is still an actor in this one.
Apologies to be that guy, but do you have any scans of the article in question? Mainly just to have a verified source on the claim
And, to be sure, do they have INDUCKS pages? If not, I can just mark them as the relevant issues in the index