WPA National Park Posters - National Park Posters

Hello—

I’m Ranger Doug and I’ve been researching and republishing the historic WPA poster art of our National Parks for almost 30 years. I currently am producing similar poster art for many of our national parks by commission. I was once a park ranger*. Today, there are no less than two dozen copy-cat “artists” who are knocking off my designs, photoshopping my art, passing off bad art to unsuspecting internet shoppers, and taking credit in the media for rediscovering this unique art. And worse, they’re selling it on ebay, Amazon, Café Press, Etsy, Red Bubble and more….using cheap on-demand printers. You deserve better. These charlatans claim to be inspired by everyone from Ansel Adams to Zelda Zilch. They’re inspired by me and they’re doing a lousy job. A simple Google search (WPA National Park) will reveal who these people are. On YouTube, there are several jumping up and down claiming to be the first to complete the WPA poster art for the National Park Service terminated by WWII.** They call themselves retro rangers and the like. Not very original. Some outright use the protected seal of The Department of the Interior. (We have been given permission only three times to use this actual seal by the Secretary of the Interior)***

*I was a Jenny Lake Ranger in Grand Teton from June 1970 to September 1976.

**Lifted right off my website.

***The three prints are Arctic Refuge Limited Edition (US F&W Service Seal) which is sold out; Mariposa Grove (1938 DOI Seal), also sold out; and a poster of the Department of the Interior Building (also the 1938 DOI Seal) still available here.

Ten years ago, I completed a 14-month exhibit by invitation of the Department of the Interior Museum to exhibit this “completion of WPA” art. I’m way ahead of the game but I want to set the record straight. Most of these copy-cat “artists” are of very poor quality, printed with on- demand printers with fading inks and are not much more original than the push of the “Posterize” button in Adobe Photoshop and worse, the nauseating AI designs. You deserve better and you deserve the truth.

HERE’S THE DIFFERENCE:	RANGER DOUG’S POSTERS	OUR COMPETITION
QUALITY	*LOW END OF THE ART* MARKET**	*HIGH END OF THE POSTER* MARKET**
FRAMABILITY	FRAME AND MATTE	THUMBTACKS
PRINTING QUALITY	SILK-SCREEN	ON-DEMAND PRINTING
COLORS	4 TO 10 SCREENS	PHOTOSHOP
DESIGNS	ON-SITE WITH NPS INPUT	PHOTOSHOP “POSTERIZE” BUTTON
COST	$45 RETAIL	UP TO $50!
AVAILABLE	NPS BOOKSTORES	AMAZON, EBAY, ONLINE, ETC.

Visit My Philosophy Page here: https://www.rangerdoug.com/about.

Good luck–and for a good read about my discoveries check out this New York Times article which is not a paid ad (unlike my competition).

PS: Every endorsement listed on my website is genuine and not paid advertisement like my competition. You can’t click on their links simply because they’re paid ads for many of the same publications that originally interviewed me. Shameful!

The Original

Want to see the genuine Ranger Doug screen prints? Look below….

The knock-off

This is my parody version of my Crater Lake print that was plagiarized by one of my competitors.

Yellowstone’s Plagiarized Design

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See More in the Gallery

The Original

Our original design published March 2019

The knock-off

This near identical design published a month later

Tacky WPA Item of the Week

We’ll feature a weekly tacky WPA merch each week.

Ranger Doug’s Enterprises is the only source for faithful reproductions of WPA National Park serigraphed posters. Originally produced between 1938 and 1941, these sixteen (the fourteen printed in Berkeley CA plus two See America prints printed in 1935 in NYC) stunning historical national park posters have been painstakingly restored, one screen at a time and are now offered again as screened prints.