The WPA & the Golden Age · See America / The Parks
Lassen Volcanic National Park, Ranger Naturalist Service — WPA Federal Art Project
C. Don Powell · WPA Federal Art Project silkscreen, National Park Service, 1938
What it is
A Ranger Naturalist Service travel poster for Lassen Volcanic National Park, part of the same 1938 WPA/NPS series.
Why it matters
Lassen Peak had erupted within living memory when this was printed — the series treated it with the same flat, unhurried confidence as any other park.
What to notice
The peak mid-eruption, rendered in the same handful of screen pulls as a quiet lake shore elsewhere in the series.
Even a volcano holds still for the 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 2007676132
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
