The WPA & the Golden Age · See America / The Parks
Pueblos of the Southwest
Dorothy Waugh · National Park Service, 1935
What it is
The composition sets pueblo dwellings behind a foreground of cactus and a clay pot — architecture, plant and vessel flattened into a single decorative plane in the manner of 1930s travel graphics.
Why it matters
A verified public-domain poster in this school, printed to be seen across a room.
What to notice
Pueblo dwellings, a cactus and a clay pot, stacked into one flat Southwestern plane by Dorothy Waugh.
Made by artists on the public payroll — art the country already owned.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Designer
- Dorothy Waugh
- Format
- Travel poster
- Poster published
- National Park Service, 1935
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · digital ID cph.3g08281
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 2026-07-18.
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 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
