RANGER OF THE LOST ART–REDISCOVERING THE WPA POSTER ART OF OUR NATIONAL PARKS

• 224 pages
• Over 400 illustrations
• Coffee-table style hardback with marker ribbon
• Includes a miniature silkscreen print of Grand Teton National Park-the first WPA NPS poster produced in 1938
• Foreword by Douglas Brinkley with first edition endorsements by Sally Jewell, Jon Jarvis, Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan and Alfred Runte.
• Printed at Paragon Press (SLC), Hand bound at Roswell Bindery of Phoenix (America’s last book bindery). Made in the USA

Sections on the …

• New Deal and WPA
• Federal Art Project
• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Western Museum Laboratories–
• The 14 Historic Prints–with recently discovered photos showing them being printed
• And more!

Includes:

• All 14 historic prints, how they were originally made, lost and rediscovered
• Other NPS posters of the era: Dorothy Waugh, Alexander Dux, Frank Nicholson, and Jacob Asanger
• Over 40 contemporary designs “in the style of” the WPA-and how we made them
• Tour the Department of the Interior Museum exhibit with the Secretary of the Interior
• Take a 44,000 mile road-trip in an antique Airstream and visit 100 national parks
• Attend the donation ceremony putting these rare prints back into the public domain
• Includes a miniature silkscreen print (Grand Teton–the first poster made in 1938)
• Thirty years of rediscovery and three years of writing in a single volume

Thirty years of research and discovery and three years of writing for only $100.

Book tour/book signings schedule: