Print style
WPA Silkscreen
The national park posters of the New Deal: a few flat inks pulled through silk screens, one over another, with a banded sky. Olympic Peninsula example from the Poster Stamp collection.
Make a stamp in this styleThe print tradition
The national park posters of the New Deal: a few flat inks pulled through silk screens, one over another, with a banded sky.
- Period
- United States, 1930s
- Process
- Hand-pulled screen print
- Marks
- Flat overprinted inks, banded sky, crisp stencil edges
- Frame
- Solid lettering block with cream caps over a coral offset shadow, sand keyline, spruce marks
The example
Sea stacks in the Pacific rain. This illustrated Rainpost sample depicts Olympic Peninsula with drawn shapes and print textures. The browser editor applies a local print treatment to your photo; the collection is an artistic interpretation.
