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- All 14 historic prints, how they were originally made, lost and rediscovered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:
Ordering Options
Wholesalers and NPS bookstores: please contact Ranger Doug for details.
Sorry, no dedications available at this time since Ranger Doug’s out on the road now for book signings.
Look Inside
Click to enlarge selected pages from the book.
Hardback Cover
Introduction
Table of Contents
Sample Chapter - Historical
Forward by Douglas Brinkley
Sample Chapter: Contemporary
Reviews & Feedback
It was with a sense of humility and astonishment that I received your “Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of Our National Parks”—a meticulously researched, beautifully illustrated, historically significant, and stunningly well produced volume.
Not least of your accomplishments has been the pervasive travel, sleuthing, and investigatory efforts that bought so much to hand. What you have made of it all is a landmark testimonial to the confluence of art, artistic reconstruction, and parks and U.S. history.
The book will, I trust, be widely disseminated and reviewed—in which event you will have further contributed to a 21st century revival of interest in and travel to the parks.
Jeffrey M. Duban
Author, The Lesbian Lyre
