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RANGER OF THE LOST ART—Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of Our National Parks BOOK

RANGER OF THE LOST ART—Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of Our National Parks BOOK

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    • 9.75 in. x 12.5 in. hardbound book with 224 pages
    • Over 400 illustrations
    • Coffee-table style hardback book with marker ribbon and dust jacket
    • 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    • All 14 historic prints, how they were originally made, lost, and rediscovered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.

     

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