Stephan from Palm Springs weighs in on last week’s post about WPA posters:
If I may add a little something more to today’s post on WPA posters:
The National Park Service picked up on the Retro craze some time ago and has for several years been selling reproductions of these posters in their giftshops at most of the national parks. While visiting Yellowstone in 2000, I found an entire line of other products based on the posters, including refrigerator magnets, note books, post cards, etc.
For retro style travel posters, there is an artist in Boulder, Colorado who is producing some wonderful artwork that is available in poster form on this website.
The majority of his work pertains to local Colorado tourist destinations, but he also has posters for Stowe, Vermont; some locations in Maine; Big Sky, Montana; Lake Tahoe; and Lansing, Michigan.
I have the large Estes Park poster with the 1950s style auto and camper trailer as well as several of the small Boulder posters (I went to school at the University of Colorado in Boulder). And his website is itself a work of art, great fun to browse through.
And how many of us had grandmothers with cheesy souvenir pillows from places she had visited? Well, the national parks are even selling reproductions of those! Here’s my own Yellowstone pillow in brown felt with classic yellow chain stitching. I’ve also seen similiar products at Rocky Mountain National Park, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and other western parks
Stephan – Palm Springs
Thanks, Stephen. I agree that Steve’s website is very fun website indeed. And I LOVE the Estes Park poster. Gosh, don’t even get me started on my desire for a vintage canned ham trailer to restore….that’s another blog altogether!
david i says
Speaking of Canned Ham I just bought one (i’ts a 1948) and I’d love to post pictures of my resteration
Steve Lowtwait says
This is almost a two year old post but I just stumbled across it. Thanks for the good words about my artwork!
Miss Jess says
LOVE these! His process is really cool.
50sPam says
Thanks, Laurie. It looks like we have a theme going! I’ll feature your illustration-find soon!
ranchredo says
Oh, I wish there were some posters of Washington or Oregon. Pooh. Well, I’ve been considering one of these posters, which are for sale in the local area and are of the Pacific Northwest, but some of them are somewhat pixelated. I want it to look like it was done by hand. 🙁
http://www.zazzle.com/lanternpress/find/qs-vintage