Sacred Ground

What spirits guard lands held holy by Blackfeet, Sioux, and Crow? In this painting, Bev Doolittle answers this question and shows us that there are many levels to the visual experience.
Sacred Ground brings together all of the elements that made Bev Doolittle famous. Here is a mountain man with his horse and packhorse, ropes and rawhide that are so real that we can feel and smell them. Then within the same frame of reference, this incredible artist has created a secondary world as powerful and important, a world of hopes 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 chieftans brave as eagles, haunted by spirits he cannot see or understand. He feels watched and threatened. He tells himself that it is only his imagination. But his horse trembles and plunges forward, wild to be away.