The Ranger of the Lost Art isn't the only one who makes WPA-style National Parks posters—Robert B. Decker also creates his own designs—but Ranger Doug is the only one who meticulously imitates ...

Talk Highlights: Meet Ranger Doug, a former Grand Teton National Park ranger who stumbled on a forgotten WPA-era poster and launched a 40-year mission to rediscover the National Park's lost art legacy ...

Leen’s company, Ranger Doug’s Enterprises, reproduces original 1930s WPA national park posters and 32 contemporary designs in the style of the WPA originals.

Between 1938 and 1941, the WPA produced a series of 14 hand silkscreened promotional posters for the parks. Eight of them, from the collection of the Library of Congress, can be seen here.

Of the 35,000 unique WPA designs and over 2 million posters printed, Leen estimates that only 1,400 featuring individual national parks were created, and few remain today.

Art of the National Parks (2021) by By Weldon Owen, Theresa Pierno, JP Boneyard, and Fifty-Nine Parks. Courtesy of Fifty-Nine Parks. Caroline Goldstein July 4, 2021 Share Share This Article ...

Artist Hannah Rothstein created a series of images in the style of vintage posters for US National Parks that imagines what they will look like if we don’t act against climate change. by Claire ...

California artist Hannah Rothstein hopes her art series, “National Parks 2050,” will convince others that Americans need to come together to confront climate change and protect our national ...

In painting and printmaking, figurative work was the national trend; for an example of this, gallery-goers should visit Ingrid E. Edwards’ 1936 painting “Communications,” which features a ...

Of the 14 original prints, there are two Mr. Leen still hasn’t found: Great Smoky Mountain and Wind Cave National Parks. (He’s offering a $10,000 reward for either.) ...

Hundreds of thousands of sweaty, athleisure-clad national park visitors have entered the park gift shop after a hike and immediately gravitated toward one particular display: the vintage-looking ma… ...

Doug Leen, 74, has made it his life’s work to track down as many original WPA national park posters as he can, after they were scattered across the country for 70 years with few records.