WPA posters inspired trailer and tour

Doug Leen, former national park ranger, is on a national tour to publicize posters created by artists with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.

Of the original fourteen posters (documented in black-and-white photographic negatives), twelve are known to exist in full-color paper form.  He hopes to find copies of the missing ones. “I don’t find the posters; the posters find me,” says Leen. He hopes to elicit contact by anyone who might have one of the posters.

Wind Cave and Great Smoky National Parks are the two missing posters. (Best-guess artist’s representations can be seen on Leen’s poster website.)

[image of custom Airstream trailer with national park artwork on the interior–Janet Bedford]