Description
Signed and numbered. Frame size approximately 22 x 49. Never hung since framed.
What spirits guard lands held holy by Blackfeet, Sioux and Crow? In this print Bev Doolittle answers the question and shows us that there are many ways to view art.
Sacred Ground brings together all the elements that have made Bev Doolittle famous. Here is a mountain man, his horse and packhorse, ropes and rawhide so real we can almost feel and smell them. Then within the same frame of reference Bev Doolittle has created a secondary world as powerful and important, a world of hopes and fears and dreams hovering on the edge of perception. For the white man senses that he has intruded on land sacred to the Indian, guarded by chieftains brave as eagles, haunted by spirits he cannot see or understand. He feels watched. Threatened. He tells himself that it is only his imagination. But his horse trembles and plunges forward, wild to be away.
In this print, Bev Doolittle had hidden an Indian Chieftain and 3 eagle profiles. Can you find them?
Sacred Ground, Bev Doolittle's 1989 Personal Commission Print elicited 69,996 requests - a new record for a limited edition fine art print.