Pintos, an edition of 1,000, made $1,200–5,500 in 2024–25; prints from her editions of 15,000 or more sold for $25–425.
Pintos (edition of 1,000): $1,200–5,500, 2024–25The Forest Has Eyes (8,544): $550–1,800, 2023–26Editions of 15,000 or more: $25–425
At 2023–26 auctions, Bev Doolittle prints from editions of 15,000 copies or more sold for $25–425, often below their issue price. Her small early editions sold for far more: Pintos (1,000 copies, $65 when issued in 1979) made $1,200–5,500, and The Forest Has Eyes (8,544 copies) $550–1,800. Prints not signed in pencil have sold for $80–650 since 2016. For your own painting or print, Art Scan: Painting Identifier — Lovenhall’s painting & art identifier app, free to try on iPhone, iPad & Android — names the likely artist, title and period from a photo.
Figures reviewed November 2026
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Bev Doolittle's prints were published by The Greenwich Workshop of Seymour, Connecticut — founded in 1972 and, by its own account, one of a handful of firms that started the signed and numbered limited-edition print — and sold through its authorised dealers. Almost all of them are offset lithographs on paper — a photomechanical process, as the publisher defines it — which the publisher says the artist inspects and signs before each is numbered.
The editions grew quickly. Pintos was issued in 1979 in an edition of 1,000 at $65; The Forest Has Eyes in 1984 in 8,544 at $175; Doubled Back in 1988 in 15,000 at $245; Sacred Ground in 1989 in 69,996 at $265; Prayer for the Wild Things in 1993 in 65,000 at $325. In 1997 Southwest Art quoted a dealer saying some editions had been capped by the orders received in a short window, and the publisher's president saying the secondary market had declined markedly since 1994.
So two things on the sheet set the figure: the title, and the edition size written under the pencil number. Every figure below is an auction result or a publisher's price, dated and sourced — an orientation, never an appraisal.
| What you hold | What it is | Figures, dated |
|---|---|---|
| Pintos (1979) | Edition of 1,000, signed and numbered in pencil; $65 when issued | $5,500 at Link, St. Louis, February 2024; $1,200 at EJ's, March 2024; $3,750 at Abell, Los Angeles, May 2025 |
| Woodland Encounter (1981), Let My Spirit Soar | Editions of 1,500; Woodland Encounter $145 when issued | Woodland Encounter $1,800 at Revere, June 2025; Let My Spirit Soar $2,500 at Davis Brothers, October 2026 |
| The Forest Has Eyes (1984) | Edition of 8,544; $175 when issued | Seven results, September 2023 to October 2026: $550–1,800, the latest $1,000 and $550 in October 2026 |
| Two Indian Horses, Wolves of the Crow (1985) | Editions of 12,253 and 2,650; $225 each when issued | Two Indian Horses $2,300, October 2026; Wolves of the Crow $300 and $400, 2025 |
| Editions of 15,000 or more — Doubled Back, Hide and Seek, Sacred Ground, The Sentinel, Prayer for the Wild Things | Editions of 15,000 to 69,996; $245–1,200 when issued | $25–425 at 2023–26 auctions; a Prayer for the Wild Things and an Eagle Heart went unsold in 2025–26 |
| A print signed in the plate, or unsigned | The signature is printed with the image, or there is none | $80–650 at auction, 2016–26 |
| Original watercolour | Painted by Doolittle herself | $3,250–14,280 at auction, 2017–26; The Silence is Broken $6,500 at Lone Star, Dallas, October 2026 |
Read November 2026. The lot pages give the sold price without saying whether it includes the buyer's premium, which ran from 15% to 30% at these houses. Issue prices are from a dealer's archive of the editions and agree with the publisher's own listings where both survive.
The things a buyer prices in, in roughly the order they look for them.
This sets the order of magnitude. Pintos, in an edition of 1,000, has made $1,200–5,500; The Forest Has Eyes, 8,544 copies, $550–1,800; Sacred Ground, 69,996 copies, $131–344. The edition is the second half of the pencil number — 783/1000, 4097/8544 — and the title matters as well: Wolves of the Crow, an edition of 2,650, sold for $300 and $400 in 2025.
Lot descriptions separate a print signed and numbered in pencil from one "signed in the plate", where the signature is printed with the image, and from prints sold as "after" Doolittle and unsigned. Since 2016 the second and third kinds have sold for $80–650: a Woodland Encounter signed in the plate made $80, against $1,800 for a pencil-signed one.
One auction house's guide says the market has almost no tolerance for prints that are trimmed, water-stained, creased or spray-mounted to a board. Several of the stronger results came with the publisher's printed note, the original sleeve or folder, or a certificate of authenticity, which the publisher says accompanies each edition.
Southwest Art reported in 1997 that Pintos had reputedly sold for up to $10,500 in the early 1990s, and a dealer told it that a print often lost value a year after issue. In 2023–26 the large editions mostly sold near or below what they cost new: Sacred Ground $131–344 against $265, The Sentinel $25–180 against $275, the Hide and Seek suite $275–395 against $1,200.
The publisher does not set the price. The Greenwich Workshop says a sold-out edition is worth what a buyer will pay and a seller accept, and that no publisher or gallery controls the secondary market. It lists some prints itself as "secondary market" items at its own prices — $600 for Prayer for the Wild Things, $430 for Eagle Heart — which are asking prices, not results; we found no appraisal or buy-back service on its site.
The results above came from regional auction houses across the country — Davis Brothers in Montana, Revere in Minnesota, Abell in Los Angeles, Link in St. Louis, O'Gallerie in Portland — and from the online estate-sale site EBTH; original watercolours sold at Western art sales such as Coeur d'Alene. Buyer's premiums at these houses ran from 15% to 30%, and none of the pages gives a seller's commission, so ask for both before consigning.
Photograph the pencil signature and number, the publisher's note in the margin and any certificate, folder or sleeve that came with the print before asking anyone for an estimate.
Indicative ranges for honest condition, never an appraisal or a quotation. The house buys, sells and values nothing; a specialist who can see the piece is the only one who can price it.
Lovenhall ArtThis page reads the market. The instrument reads what you are holding — recognised from a photograph, with a range for its kind.