National Parks & Monuments

This collection contains National Parks & Monuments posters designed by Roy Behrens (Art Professor Emeritus) at the University of Northern Iowa, which used combined modified features from public domain photographs and other graphic elements. This collection is a subset of the larger Behrens Poster Archive.

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Acadia National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Acadia National Park with several background images: oak leaf, fall foliage in front of a mountain, and side profile of the back half of a turkey.

Transcription: Acadia National Park. We need the tonic of wildness...We can never get enough of nature-Henry David Thoreau. The Atlantic Coasts of Maine.

Description: Poster depicting Acadia National Park with a quote from Henry David Thoreau.
Badlands National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Badlands National Park with a background image of the parks spires, buttes, and cannons.

Transcription: Badlands National Park. Let sculptors come to the Badlands. Let painters come. Bit first of all let architects come... the aspects of the Dakota Badlands have more spiritual quality to impart to the mind of America than anything else in the country-Frank Lloyd Wright.

Description: Poster showing a photograph of Badlands National Park with a quote from Frank Lloyd Wright.
Banff National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Banff National Park with several background images: Lynx face in washed out colors, Dry mountain terrain with a trail along a ridge, and a front view of a lynx.

Transcription: If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve the man-but it would deteriorate the cat-Mark Twain. Rocky Mountains. Banff National Park. Alberta, Canada.

Description: Poster depicting Banff National Park with a quote from Mark Twain.
Big Bend National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Big Bend National Park with a background image of a large bird with outstretched wings flying in front of a high cliff. Text in white letters. Small profile of wolf all in red located near the bottom of the poster.

Transcription: Big Bend National Park. ...spectacular mountain and desert scenery, the myriad of widely improbable geological structures, all enclosed in the great bend of the Rio Grande...combine to provide an unearthly sense of visiting another world-Stewart Udall.

Description: Poster depicting Big Bend National Park with a quote from Stewart Udall.
Bryce Canyon National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Bryce Canyon National Park with a background image of a large black bird with outstretched wings flying above the park's colored pinnacles and hoodoos. Text in white.

Transcription: Utah. Bryce Canyon National Park. This park is renowned for its erosional landscape, where brilliantly colored stone pillars and hoodoos descend from the eastern rim of the plateau and fill the precipitous canyons below...-Chris T. Wenker.

Description: Poster with a photo of Bryce Canyon National Park with a quote from Chris T. Wenker.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Carlsbad Caverns with large white text: Carlsbad Caverns and a background image of the inside of a cave featuring stalactites. A circle of words located in the upper left: With zig-zag wings flitter mouse / Flew in and out the haunted house / Eden Phillpotts.

Transcription: Carlsbad Caverns. In the evening, bats pour out from the openings in black streams so dense that they can be seen from a distance of two miles, and fill the shafts so closely that they can be caught in the hands as they pass out-Vernon Bailey. Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Description: Poster with a photo of Carlsbad Caverns and a quote from Vernon Bailey.
Chaco Canyon National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Chaco Canyon National Park with a background image of a photograph of red colored ruins in the park. Near the top of the poster in large stylized white letters: Chaco Canyon National Park where the letter A is a triangle, the letter O has a large dot in the center, and letters n and K are turned around.

Transcription: Chaco Canyon national Park. Chetrl Keti Kiva.

Description: Poster of Chaco Culture National Historical Park showing the Chetrl Keti Kiva.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Cuyahoga Valley National Park with a background image of a large stepped water falls and a large blue and white bird in profile standing on a tree branch in front of the falls. Near the top of the poster in large white letters: Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

Transcription: Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Brandywine Falls. Northeastern Ohio.

Description: Poster depicting the Cuyahoga Valley National Park featuring a waterfall and a heron.
Effigy Mounds National Monument [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Effigy Mounds National Monument with several background images: Green colored rock face, large green feather with a profile of a bird in red in the center of the feather, a large silver coin featuring three animal shaped mounds, and a section of brown leaves covering the ground.

Transcription: Effigy Mounds National Park. Effigy Mounds, 2017, Iowa. Effigy Mounds National Monument overlooks the Mississippi River in Northeastern Iowa. It preserves more than 200 earthen mounds made by indigenous cultures between 1400 and 750 BC. Most of these burial mounds are in the shape of animals, such as bears and birds.

Description: Poster depicting Effigy Mounds National Monument featuring a quarter created in 2017 in honor of the monument and a description of the park.
Everglades National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Everglades National Park with image of a closeup of an alligator's head at the top, a large blue and white wading bird flying below the alligator image, and a background image of marsh grasses and water. Text in white letters.

Transcription: Everglades National Park. The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.-Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

Description: Poster depicting Everglades National Park with a quote from Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
Glacier National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Glacier National Park with a background photo of a tall mountain with flat sides of layered rock with fans of trees and vegetation on the lower flanks with a river and tree covered meadow at the bottom. Text in white letters.

Transcription: Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner-the Crown of the Continent.-George Bird Grinnell.

Description: Poster depicting Glacier National Park in Montana with a quote from George Bird Grinnell.
Grand Canyon National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Grand Canyon National Park with a background photo of a horseshoe bend of the Colorado River in the canyon. Rock in reds and yellows. Text in green and white letters.

Transcription: The glories and beauties of natural form, color and sound unite in the Grand Canyon-its forms are unrivaled by mountains and its colors complete with the sunsets.-John Wesley Powell.

Description: Poster depicting the Horseshoe Bend in Arizona with a quote from John Wesley Powell.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Great Smoky Mountains National Park with a background photo of the mountains taken during the fall with a closeup of an elk. Text in white letters.

Transcription: North Carolina. Tennessee. Great Smoky Mountains National Park. If you stand on one of the lofty peaks of the Great Smoky Mountains and view the wavelike ridges which finally lose themselves in the hazy distance, you are awed by the grandeur that nature has lavished upon this mountainous region.-Arthur Stupka.

Description: Poster depicting an elk in the foreground with the Great Smoky Mountains in the background with a quote from Arthur Stupka.
Joshua Tree National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Joshua Tree National Park with a background image of a large tortoise located under a Joshua Tree with a pile of stone boulders in the background. Text in white letters.

Transcription: We call him Tortoise, because he taught us.-Lewis Carroll. California. Joshua Tree National Park.

Description: Poster depicting Joshua Tree National Park featuring a Joshua tree,a tortoise, and a quote from Lewis Carroll.
Liberty Island National Monument [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Liberty Island National Monument with two views of the Statue of Liberty including an aerial view of the bottom of the statue and nearby grounds and a closeup of the top of the statue. Text in white and yellow letters.

Transcription: New York Harbor. Liberty Island National Monument. America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem: She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to its shores...-Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Description: Poster depicting the Statue of Liberty National Monument featuring an image of the Statue of Liberty and a quote from Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Lincoln Memorial National Monument [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Lincoln Memorial National Monument with two background images including an image of the Lincoln Memorial structure and an image of the statue of Lincoln from a view at it base looking upward. Text in gray and red letters.

Transcription: Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.-Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln Memorial National Monument.

Description: Poster depicting the Lincoln Memorial featuring a view of the Lincoln statue and a quote from Abraham Lincoln.
Mesa Verde National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Mesa Verde National Park with background images of ruins and two smaller images including a bird in a circle and a round basket with a complex design. Text in white and brown letters.

Transcription: In 1888, while searching for lost cattle, [they] pushed through dense growths on the edge of a deep canyon and shouted aloud in astonishment...Thus was discovered the most elaborate and best preserved prehistoric ruins in America...Mesa Verde National Park. Colorado. Mesa Verde National Park.

Description: Poster depicting Mesa Verde National Park featuring images of the ruins and quotes explaining how they were discovered by people looking for lost cattle.
Petrified Forest National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Petrified Forest National Park with two background images. The top image is a pattern of cracks outlined in gray on white and the bottom image is a photo of rounded striped rocks in front of long rock ridge. Text in gray and white letters.

Transcription: ...the most brilliant aggregation of jewels on the globe...agate, chalcedony, jasper, onyx and opals, not by the handful, but by the ton.-Charles R. Lummis. Petrified Forest National Park. Holbrook, Arizona.

Description: Poster depicting the Petrified Forest National Park with a quote from Charles F. Lummis.
Rocky Mountain National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Rocky Mountain National Park with a background image of a high rocky peak with ice and a pond at it's base and a close up image of a Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in the foreground. Text in white letters.

Transcription: Rocky Mountain National Park. Colorado. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are.-Peter Matthiessen.

Description: Poster depicting a bighorn sheep in the foreground and the Rocky Mountains in the background with a quote from Peter Matthiessen.
Sequoia National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Sequoia National Park with a background image of a grove of tall evergreen trees. Text in gray letters.

Transcription: Sequoia National Park. As gifted as our writers are, they have failed to describe adequately the towering majesty and solemn beauty of sequoia trees...they stand supreme-the largest and perhaps the oldest living things on earth.-Lawrence F. Cook.

Description: Poster depicting three sequoia trees in the foreground and more in the background with a quote from Lawrence F. Cook.
Yellowstone National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for or Yellowstone National Park with a background photo of the river winding through high soft banks with large stands of trees and meadows. A closeup of an owl in the foreground. Text in white and yellow letters.

Transcription: National Park. Yellowstone. Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.-John Muir.

Description: Poster depicting a great horned owl in the foreground with the Yellowstone River in the background with a quote from John Muir.
Yosemite National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Yosemite National Park with a background photo of a group of people standing on a high ledge overlooking a deep canyon and a close up of a bear in the foreground. Text in white letters.

Transcription: Yosemite National Park. In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush a bear!-Wm Shakespeare.

Description: Poster depicting a black bear in the foreground and a view of Half Dome in the background with a quote from William Shakespeare.
Zion National Park [poster]

2019

Alt Text: Poster for Zion National Park with a background image of a waterfall falling over high red rock cliffs with a close up of a Coyote in the foreground. Text in white and yellow letters.

Transcription: Sinwava is Paiute for Coyote. Coyotes move within a landscape of attentiveness. I have seen their eyes in the creosote bushes and among the mesquite trees. They have watched me. And all the times I saw no eyes...there were still coyotes.-Craig Childs. Zion National Park.

Description: Poster depicting a coyote in the foreground and a waterfall in Zion National Park in the background with a quote from Craig Childs.