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Zion National Park WPA Poster by Ranger Naturalist Service, National Park Service (WPA) — restored poster print
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Zion National Park WPA Poster, 1939

Ranger Naturalist Service — WPA Federal Art Project, Western Museum Laboratories, Berkeley

From the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, WPA Poster Collection · 1939

$539

For 30×40 in, float frame canvas, black

Printed & framed in the USA

Made to orderShips in a flat box or tubeDamaged or not what you ordered? Tell us within 7 days of delivery — free replacement

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Measure the wall between whatever bounds it — window trim, a doorway, the corner. Sizes are judged hung (frame included) with 6 in of breathing room, two-thirds the width of the furniture under them, and the center at eye level (57–60 in). Guidance, not a guarantee: the true-size template is the final check.

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Art
Zion National Park WPA Poster
Size
30×40 in ·
Finish
Float frame canvas, Black ·
Price
$539
  • Made to order just for you: printed, finished and packed within 3–5 business days. Your order reaches the printer within minutes and printing can start soon after; once it starts, the order can't be canceled or changed.
  • Free replacement if it arrives damaged, defective or not what you ordered — tell us within 7 days of delivery, with photos. Because each piece is made for you, there are no returns for a change of mind. Full policy
  • No hanging hardware is included. Stretched and framed canvases hang flat on two nails or screws, set level: the wooden bar on the back rests on them, and the free wall template marks the spot. Rolled canvas goes to a framer first.
  • Printed from an archive scan of the original poster (1939). Its paper tone, small spots and marks of age are part of the picture, just as on the original sheet, and colors can look slightly different on your screen.

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30×40 in · Float frame canvas, Black$539

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How it gets to you · item no. 261 · SKU PST-LAS0261-FFL-30X40

  1. Printed for youwithin 3–5 business days
  2. Shipped with tracking3–8 business days after printing
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Before you hang it, print the true-size wall template to see exactly where it will sit.

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Please check before you buy. Your order goes to the printer within minutes, and once printing starts, made-to-order pieces can't be canceled, changed or returned for a change of mind, so please check the size guide and room views first. If it arrives damaged, defective or not what you ordered, we'll replace it free within 7 days. Full policy

Materials & finish

Printed on 400 gsm canvas with pigment inks. Stretched canvas and float frame canvas sit on a 1.5 in (38 mm) wooden stretcher; the classic frame holds the canvas on a slimmer 0.75 in (19 mm) stretcher. Rolled canvas ships in a sturdy tube.

The float frame stands 2.1 in (53 mm) off the wall, with a 0.5 in (12 mm) face and a 0.2 in (5 mm) gap around the canvas. The classic frame stands 0.9 in (22 mm) off the wall with a 0.8 in (20 mm) face.

Hanging hardware is not included. Two picture hooks (or screws) rated for the weight, set level, are all it needs; the free true-size wall template marks the spot.

Corner of a Black float frame canvas: the canvas sits inside the frame with a narrow gap Back of a float frame canvas: wooden stretcher inside the frame, no hanging hardware fitted Cross-section of the float frame: 53 mm deep, 12 mm face, 5 mm gap, 38 mm canvas
The float frame up close: front corner, the back as it arrives, and its cross-section. Photos: Prodigi, who print and frame our pieces.

Every finish is printed from the same file at the same resolution; only the mounting changes.

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Rights & provenance record

Source scan: LOC (Prints & Photographs, WPA Poster Collection)
Rights statement of the archive: “No known restrictions on publication. Work Projects Administration poster — a work of the United States federal government, in the public domain.”
Original poster: Ranger Naturalist Service, National Park Service (WPA), 1939, 1 print (poster) : screen, color ; 48 x 36 cm. Verified 2026-09-13.

This product is a new print made to order from a restored scan of that poster. It is not an original antique and is not sold as one.

The story of this poster

Between 1938 and 1941 a small studio of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project, working out of the Western Museum Laboratories in Berkeley, California, silkscreened a series of posters for the National Park Service. Fourteen designs are known. They were pulled by hand in runs of perhaps a hundred, pinned up in ranger stations and hotel lobbies to advertise the free naturalist programs, and then thrown away when the season ended. Only a few dozen originals survive; this one is in the Library of Congress.

The Zion sheet, dated 1939, is the most vertical composition in the set. The Great White Throne fills it from the canyon floor to the top margin, rendered in five or six flat inks — the cream face of the Navajo sandstone, a mauve shadow, the green of the cottonwoods and piñon along the Virgin River, and a sky laid down in horizontal bands of blue. The lettering is the studio’s own condensed sans-serif, and the Park Service arrowhead sits in the bottom margin between the two agency names.

The posters were rediscovered in the 1970s, when a seasonal ranger found an original in a barn at Grand Teton and spent years tracking down the rest of the series; they have been reprinted, imitated and redrawn ever since. This is not a redrawing. It is the original 1939 impression, with the creases and edge wear of a poster that hung in a park building, scanned at 300 dpi by the Library of Congress. The scan was cleaned and color-corrected digitally while keeping the paper tone.

It is printed to order on canvas, as a float frame, classic frame, stretched or rolled canvas, and offered only at the sizes the sheet’s proportions fit. It suits a cabin, a hallway or a wall of park posters.

What we did to this scan

  1. Squared off the scanner’s margins to the edge of the printed sheet.
  2. Balanced the levels and took out the scanner’s color cast, keeping 65% of the paper’s age tone.
  3. Cleaned dust and specks picked up by the scanner.
  4. A light sharpen, so fine lines and lettering hold at large sizes.

Every print is credited to its archive here and in your order confirmation. Paper tone and small imperfections of the original are kept on purpose; nothing is redrawn. How we restore.

Questions

What does the poster show?
The Great White Throne, the sandstone monolith that rises 2,400 feet above the floor of Zion Canyon, in the flat silkscreen greens, tans and blues of the WPA studio, with the Ranger Naturalist Service program — field trips, campfire programs, natural history talks — lettered across the top.
Is this an original WPA poster?
No. It is a new canvas print of a restored, full-resolution scan of the public-domain original silkscreen poster held by the Library of Congress. Original WPA park posters survive in very small numbers and sell for thousands of dollars; we never sell originals.
Where does this image come from?
From the original Works Progress Administration poster held by the Library of Congress, printed for the National Park Service and photographed by the archive at full resolution. It is a work of the United States government, free for anyone to reproduce, and the archive's own record is linked in the provenance panel further down this page.
Which sizes are offered?
Only sizes that fit the poster's own proportions and that the scan carries at 200 dpi or better; the original sheet is roughly 14×19 inches. The size picker shows them. Nothing is cropped or upscaled.
Does it come framed?
It is printed to order on canvas. You can choose a float frame canvas, a classic frame canvas, a stretched canvas or a rolled canvas, with each frame in Black, or in Antique Gold where the picker offers it. The size and finish picker shows which are made for this piece.
Colors vary a little between screens and canvas. The previews are drawn, not photographed, and are a close match to the printed piece.

Every size, one wall

All 3 sizes of this print, side by side

To scale, framed, with a 5 ft 6 in figure for reference — so you can see the steps between sizes at a glance before you pick one above.

Left to right: 30×40 in · 18×24 in · 12×16 in

Every size to scale on one wall, framed in Black, beside a 5 ft 6 in figure. Room photograph generated for scale; the figure is 5 ft 6 in.

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Size guide
5′6″ 12×16 in18×24 in24×36 in
SizeMetricBest for
12×16 in30×41 cmDesk, shelf, small wall, gallery groupings
18×24 in46×61 cmAbove a desk or console, hallway, bedroom
30×40 in76×102 cmOver a sofa or bed, statement wall, office

Sizes are the canvas size. A framed piece is a little larger than its canvas: add the frame.