Doree Dunlap, 58

Palisades Native, College Art Professor

Former Pacific Palisades resident Doree Dunlap, an art professor and staff member for nearly 30 years at Orange Coast College, lost a long battle with breast cancer October 6. She was 58 years old. Doree grew up in the Palisades with her parents, David and Jeanne, and her brother, David III. They lived in one of the oldest homes in the Marquez area for 19 years. In 1967, Doree graduated from Palisades High School, where she used her artistic talent for school publications. She then attended Santa Monica College before earning her bachelor’s degree and master’s in conceptual art drawing and design from Otis Art Institute. Before joining Orange Coast College’s faculty in 1975, Doree was an exhibiting artist in graphics, video and drawing. She created illustrations for Teen magazine, MGM Records, Fashion Illustration and Fashion Week magazine and her work was featured in galleries in Los Angeles, Pasadena, Seattle, Boston, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Hartford, Laguna Beach and Kassel, Germany. Since 2003, Doree had been director of Orange Coast’s new Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion. Doree took time away from the college from 1997 to 2001 to launch 1451 International, Ltd., a firm that acquired exclusive worldwide licensing agreements with the Vatican Library in Rome. She selected and curated more than 300 images’for worldwide distribution’from the Vatican Library’s collection of more than 2.3 million works of art, maps, books, sculpture and ancient manuscripts. For three years she worked as a researcher at the Biblioteca Apostolica at the Vatican and at the Drawing Room of the Uffizi Museum in Florence, Italy. Many more outstanding accomplishments in the field of art are credited to her, but one her parents like to remember is that she trained the docents at the Getty Museum when it first opened’even calling them her ‘Getty Girls.’ Doree leaves behind her sons, Tyler, Hugh and Aaron; her parents, David and Jeanne; her brother David of Long Beach; and two nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, English professor Ed Dornan, who died of a heart attack in 2005. A memorial service was held October 26 in the Arts Pavilion at the Orange County Register with some 250 friends in attendance.