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"Bev Doolittle's vision became her signature. Her different way of seeing was the essence of what she has to offer." - Elise Maclay

Bev Doolittle was born and raised in California. In 1968, Bev Doolittle graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles.  Doolittle met her husband, Jay, at school, and they started married life with a painting trip to Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks - a portent of things to come.  For the next five years however, the Doolittles were engaged in advertising art and TV productions in Los Angeles.

"It paid well, but after a while I wasn't learning," Bev explains, "and we didn't like living in the city.  We wanted to be close to nature, and we wanted to travel." They have now accomplished both. Their frequent travels and backpacking trips have covered the western United States, Canada, Baja California, and eastern Africa.  They now live close to nature in California.

Doolittle's subject matter is provided by the out-of-doors. "I love nature," Doolittle says. "I try to look beyond the obvious and create unique, meaningful paintings depicting our Western wilderness and its inhabitants. I start with a concept and attempt to convey it through strong design coupled with detailed realism. I want people to think when they look at my paintings.

1979 - Bev Doolittle begins with the publication of her first print. "In Pintos, the  magic began to happen for me," Doolittle says, and the same was true for her growing group of collectors.

1983 - This landmark year sets a record: a full five fine art releases by Bev  Doolittle, including a poster, Art of Camouflage. Responding to the rapidly increasing demand for Bev Doolittle art, The Greenwich Workshop creates the  Personal Commission concept for Christmas Day, Give or Take a Week, which effectively triples a normal Bev Doolittle edition size.

1984 - This seminal year begins with the simple elegance of Let My Spirit Soar, one of the few Bev Doolittle images which feature a female subject. The year concludes with The Forest Has Eyes, Bev Doolittle's second Personal Commission print, which cements her fame as a concept artist.

1985 - The magic continues with the Personal Commission print Two Indian Horses, which is one of Bev Doolittle's fondest explorations in redirecting the  viewer's eye. It tells a story in reverse order. This print, too, sets another  record for edition size.

1989 - "I want to change the experience of seeing", Doolittle said of her all-time, record-breaking Personal Commission print, Sacred Ground. Viewers were delighted by her deepening use of camouflage to bring out natural truths. The result was an edition size that has never been matched: 69,996.

1990 - The new decade finds Doolittle presenting a literary phenomenon: The  Art of Bev Doolittle book, with an unprecedented 350,000 copies in print, an unheard-of number for an art book by a living painter!

The Magic Takes Flight
"Doolittle found herself going down new paths, and her paintings began to take on a more powerful role, raising hundreds of thousands  of dollars for conservation, education, and wildlife causes."
- Elise Maclay

1991 - "I was hungry for color," Doolittle says of The Sentinel, "and wanted to dip my brush into every color of the rainbow." Afterwards came Sacred Circle, called "the visual summation of her environmental convictions", which raised $440,000 to benefit both the National Wildlife Federation and the Canadian   Wildlife Federation.

1993 - Another camouflage release, Prayer for the Wild Things, became the first Greenwich Workshop "painting in sound". With it's tie-in with a music CD this Art in Concert (TM) edition by Doolittle wins a Grammy award and raises more than $200,000 to benefit the National Arbor Day Foundation along with eight other worthy organizations.

1995 - "I never thought I'd do a sequel," Doolittle says of Two More Indian Horses," but the challenge of continuing an artistic story intrigued me on a  conceptual and artistic level." This, and such other projects as the New Magic Collector's Edition book and accompanying print
The Spirit Takes Flight, delight the explorer in Doolittle.

1996 and 1997 - Bev Doolittle's on-going creative exploration results in a serendipitous print,
Three More for Breakfast.

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