Ranger of the Lost Art

224 pages

Over 400 illustrations

Coffee-table style hardback with marker ribbon

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All 14 historic prints, how they were originally made, lost and rediscovered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