The WPA & the Golden Age · See America / The Parks
Grand Canyon National Park — WPA Federal Art Project
C. Don Powell · WPA Federal Art Project silkscreen, National Park Service, 1938
What it is
A See America travel poster for Grand Canyon National Park, silkscreened by the WPA Federal Art Project.
Why it matters
Part of the same national "See America" series as the Yellowstone piece — a Depression-era program selling citizens their own public land, in a medium the program itself helped invent as fine art.
What to notice
The canyon’s strata reduced to a handful of flat color bands, each a separate screen pull.
A continent, cut down to the size of a print.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Designer
- C. Don Powell
- Printer / house
- WPA Federal Art Project silkscreen shop
- Format
- Travel poster
- Poster published
- WPA Federal Art Project silkscreen, National Park Service, 1938
- Source
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons mirror) · LCCN 2007676131
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government program work (WPA Federal Art Project), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-17.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
