The WPA & the Golden Age · See America / The Parks
Zion 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 Zion National Park, the last of the 1938 WPA/NPS silkscreen series this house has sourced so far.
Why it matters
Same program, same silkscreen shop, same national promise — a sandstone canyon sold with the same confidence as a geyser or a glacier.
What to notice
The canyon walls stacked as flat overlapping planes, deepest red at the base.
A closing note in flat, unhurried color.
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) · LC-DIG-ppmsca-13400 (LCCN 2007676134)
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
