Loretta Dovell Bailey
Artist

Loretta Dovell Bailey is known internationally for her equine and animal portraits as well as hunting, racing and other related sports scenes.

From her Shenandoah Valley studio in northern Virginia, she creates artwork featuring horses, foxes, dogs or wildlife in their natural landscapes. Oil on canvas is the most frequently used medium, however, she also paints in watercolor and pastel. Sketches in pen and ink or charcoals are sometimes printed as note cards. Recently Loretta has painted images on pieces of marble showing a variety of subjects such as mares and foals, foxes, Jack Russell terriers, or horse racing. She has had several limited edition prints published.

Loretta’s paintings can be found world-wide. In 1992 she was commission to fly to England to paint the Grand National winner, Party Politics. Among her other clients and commissions are Sam Huff, president of the West Virginia Breeders Classics, LTD, who chose her to be their official Breeder’s Cup artist, the champion race horses, Heartlight No. One, Soul-of-the-Matter, and Afternoon Deelites owned by Burt Bacharach of California (this painting is currently for sale), Andalusian dressage horse, Sweet Medicine Anansador of Great Falls, Virginia and the Field Hunter Champion of America, Lord Hugh, a portrait of a major Thoroughbred stallion, Hold Your Peace, commission by M. Tyson Gilpin of Lakeville Farm, Boyce, Virginia, to name a few. Loretta has also done a royal portrait of HM, the Sulton of Oman on his Arabian stallion.

Loretta’s paintings have been exhibited at Delaware Park and Saratoga race tracks, as well as Charles Town and Mountaineer Park in West Virginia during the West Virginia Breeders
Classics races. She has also exhibited at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky and at Morven Park in Leesburg, Virginia at the point-to-point races and at a gallery in Saratoga, New York.