Sacred Ground

Dealers disagree about the signature on this edition. One catalogs it as signed in the plate, meaning a printed signature, with the number in pencil. Others describe it as signed and numbered by the artist. An auction listing for copy 1141/69996 records both: a signature at lower right and a second signature in the plate.^3,8,5,9

The number is written as the copy number over 69,996. One dealer’s copy is recorded as 60913/69996.³

Bev Doolittle prints in general

The Greenwich Workshop says each of its fine art edition prints is signed by the artist and then numbered consecutively, and that a certificate of authenticity accompanies each edition.^10,11

Dealers describe Doolittle’s classic paper editions as signed and numbered, and one specifies pencil. The number is written as the copy number over the edition size: one dealer’s copy of Season of the Eagle is recorded as 33032/36548.^12,13,14

Small unsigned versions of several pictures exist. The 1986 portfolio Where Silence Speaks reproduced sixteen of her pictures as small plates, among them The Forest Has Eyes, Let My Spirit Soar, Unknown Presence and Woodland Encounter. A dealer who sells them says they are not signed or numbered and are smaller than the original limited editions. Dealers list them with the words “From Where Silence Speaks” or “WSS”.^15,16,17

All identification notes for Bev Doolittle prints