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This enamel pin features a detail from Save Our Wildlife [Trumpeter Swan], 1935, by Dorothy Waugh.
The posters Dorothy Waugh created for the National Park Service between 1934 and 1936 mark a turning point in American graphic design and advertising history. Previous posters for National Parks were mainly created by railroad companies, but Waugh advocated for the government to produce its own campaign with a modernist bent. The resulting series of posters, at once avant-garde and accessible, put Waugh at the forefront of the government’s increasingly expansive presence in American visual culture.
Waugh designed this poster for a joint campaign by the National Park Service and the Department of Agriculture’s Biological Survey. The campaign was to feature five emblematic endangered animals—starting with a trumpeter swan, whose preservation had motivated the Survey to create a wildlife refuge near Yellowstone. Characteristically, Waugh’s dramatic poster combined realistic and abstract elements.
Measures 2 x 2 inches. Double posted.