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In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, we compiled some of the classic National Parks posters from the early 1930s and 40s, and the modern posters created in their ...
WPA posters advocating for specific national parks have their own unique history, since many were lost for many years. ... simple look from the era, which was iconic for the Park Service.” ...
Doug Leen calls himself the "ranger of the lost art." His mission: to find, restore and reproduce vintage National Park Service posters. Lee started the work in 1973, when he came across a circa ...
For National Park Week, ... the WPA produced a series of 14 hand silkscreened promotional posters for the parks. ... Library of Congress See America Visit the national parks poster, ca. 1936-1940.
9 vintage National Park Service posters that will inspire you to get outside By Kevin Loria 2016-04-19T14:40:00Z ...
In 1938, the National Park Service launched a poster program to increase visits to America’s outdoor sites, from Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon.
The artist Hannah Rothstein reimagines classic WPA posters for a world wracked by drought, flooding, fires, and pollution. The WPA-era posters advertising American National Parks are classic ...
Rothstein, 31, finished the digital remakes of the WPA-era posters in March in time for Earth Day and the March for Science last week. She even gave a portion of online sales to orgniazations like ...
Local artist Kathy Stark's "See Jacksonville" pays tribute to local parks in the style of WPA-era national park posters.
The poster accompanied Leen when he left the park to continue his education and eventually pursue a dentistry career. But he didn’t just tack his find up on the wall next to other posters that were ...
Four years from now, the Carpenters’ Company — owner and operator of historic Carpenters’ Hall in Independence National Historical Park — will celebrate both the 250th anniversary of the first ...
Artist Daniel Beckwith added Muppets to national park-style posters, with Kermit and Robin hiking, Fozzie at a ... (WPA) posters produced from 1935-1943 that are instantly recognizable as ...