1-72 (Christmas Composition)
Oil on Masonite - Size 16x20" (405x510mms)

The idea for the shameful scene featuring the poor Duck family purchasing a puny Christmas tree (at full price) from their stern Uncle Scrooge came from Barks' friend Malcolm Willits who also purchased the artwork.
The painting never received an official title. Barks just booked it in several places as either Christmas Composition or Christmas Composition with Scrooge. When the artwork was published as a lithograph in 1999 it received the title A Christmas Trimming.

5-72 Christmas Carolers
Oil on Masonite - Size 12x17" (310x430mms)

Barks made a painting of the 1953 gag front cover from WDCS148. The artwork was ordered by Barks' old employer, Western Publishing, with the intention of using it in a new comic book, but for some reason it never happened. This also explains why Barks' layout leaves the upper part of the painting bare; he simply left room for the Disney header! See more HERE.

16-74 Season to Be Jolly
Oil on Masonite - Size 20x16" (510x405mms)

For 13-74 Nobody's Spending Fool Barks used a story scene from FC0386 Only a Poor Old Man describing how Scrooge made it rich as a gold miner. In one panel he shows the only reference to Klondike in the story, namely the one in which Scrooge straddles down a main street surrounded by disgusted onlookers. This scene would later wind up as the motif for the mentioned painting.
Shortly after, Barks decided to make a copy of the artwork, 16-74 Season to Be Jolly, showing how Scrooge - still with a money sack and a sneer - spends his jolly holiday season, this time in a festive Duckburg.

25-75 Gifts for Shacktown
Oil on Masonite - Size 8x10" (200x250mms)

The painting is a close copy of the front cover for FC0367 A Christmas for Shacktown from 1952. Initially, Barks wanted to make several alterations for the painting compared to the cover, but he then refrained and only moved Donald's head enabling us to see both his eyes, portrayed the nephews with smiles on their faces, and furnishing the now empty space over Donald's head (where the cover's header had been) with a few sweets. Also, Barks for unknown reasons opted for Donald's lower beak to appear in an odd, square shape.

15-79 Santa's Christmas Mail
Oil on Masonite - Size 20x16" (510x405mms)

Barks painted this motif between his two Disney concessions, i.e. during the artwork incorporating his special series enjoyably named Famous Figures of History as They Might Have Looked Had Their Genes Gotten Mixed with Waterfowl. The painting emerged in the Barks book Animal Quackers in 1996.
Barks' wife Garé wrote this letter (excerpt) to his daughter Dorothy during the creation process: ...Carl is working like a beaver on a large Xmas painting for the Canadian Richard Foster, who, as someone put it, goosed the market with a fire hose! It will be a beauty - very complicated - with dozens of little animal people working on different things with Santa in the middle...

145-96 Merry Christmas!
Oil on Masonite - Size 11x14" (280x360mms)

This rather frightening scene with an unapproachable Scrooge was partly copied from the first story in which he appeared, namely FC0178 Christmas on Bear Mountain, where he was perceived as a lonely and eccentric miser.
The artwork emerged in 1997 (50 years after Scrooge's first appearance) drawn as an exact copy by artist Bucky O'Neill on the front cover of WDCS608.

1997 (Uncoded) Christmas On Bear Mountain
Watercolour on paper - Size 12x6" (305x150mms)

This artwork was another, but considerably looser, scene reference to FC0178 Christmas On Bear Mountain. In it, Scrooge flees from a baby bear thus losing his bear costume, while the nephews crash through a closed window. A furious mother bear crashes through the door.
It emerged in 1998 as the front cover of a stamp booklet produced by Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corporation to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first appearance of Scrooge. The small US-booklet reproduced the entire story partly as stamps. See more HERE.