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Doris Littrell
Doris Littrell (April 28, 1929) is a retired Native art dealer and gallery owner from central Oklahoma. From 1955 to 2009 she worked to develop and expand sales venues for Oklahoma Native art through her travels, raising the visibility of Oklahoma Indian painters both inside and outside of the state.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://newsok.com/doris-littrell/article/2889704 )〕 Littrell exerted a major impact upon the careers of Mirac Creepingbear, Doc Tate Nevaquaya, Merlin Little Thunder, and Virginia Stroud, among others.
==Early life and career==
Doris Littrell was born in 1929 on a farm near Apache, Oklahoma. Her parents were Clarence and Isa Mason. Her maternal grandmother, Rosa Cook (nee Read) homesteaded a ranch on the former Kiowa/Comanche reservation with William Cook. Littrell grew up around Southern Plains Indians culture. She attended pow-wows with her maternal uncle and admired the paintings he collected from his neighbor, George Geoinety. At age thirteen, she left home and went to work for her aunt in Apache as a switchboard operator. She worked the night shift at the telephone company and attended school during the day. Her best friend was half Comanche and she spent many weekends at her home, absorbing aspects of Comanche culture from her mother, one of the first Comanche nurses.〔
In 1947, Littrell was hired by Southwestern Bell in Oklahoma City and met her future husband, Bob McCabe. As a newlywed, she bought Southern Plains paintings from her maternal uncle who, in turn, had purchased them from his Indian neighbors. When financial stresses soon made it necessary for her supplement her income, she turned to the sale of artwork to make more money. She bought paintings primarily from Kiowa and Comanche artists in Apache, Anadarko and Carnegie, and resold their work to businesses and individuals. Her breakthrough occurred in 1969 when she mounted a Native art show in the Sales and Rental Gallery at the Oklahoma Arts Center in Oklahoma City. The owner of the S&R Gallery, Imogene Mugg, took over the next year with the "All-Oklahoma Indian Artists Invitational. The show became the largest Native art show in central Oklahoma prior to the launch of the Red Earth Indian Arts Festival Also in 1969, Doris divorced Bob McCabe and married jewelry dealer, Mel Littrell. Their marriage did not last and eventually was annulled. Before and after, she continued to work with McCabe, marketing Oklahoma Native paintings throughout central Oklahoma, and in New Jersey, Washington, D.C., Colorado, Arizona and California.
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