Two weeks a year the meadows at the foot of the mountain go purple, and everyone in Washington tries to be there at once. This original vintage-style travel poster holds that fortnight still — lupine in the foreground, 14,000 feet of ice behind.
The design is drawn flat — the glaciated summit of Mount Rainier under white cumulus, a dark conifer treeline below it, and a foreground meadow thick with purple lupine spikes and small white and yellow wildflowers, MOUNT RAINIER above NATIONAL PARK across the foot, worked in sky blue, glacier white and violet-grey, lupine purple, meadow green and cream. Printed to order on heavyweight matte art paper with a smooth, uncoated surface that keeps those hard colour edges crisp and readable from across the room. No glare, no plastic sheen, no photograph: just paper and ink.
- Paper: 189 g/m2 (10.3 mil) heavyweight matte art stock — substantial enough to hang unframed without curling
- Finish: uncoated matte — no glare under lamps, windows or gallery lighting
- Opacity: 94%, so a wall colour or a second sheet behind it never shows through
- Brightness: 104% ISO — a bright white base that keeps the flat colour blocks saturated
- Origin: paper milled in Japan; every poster is printed to order, never warehoused
Size chart
| Poster size | Art panel (centred) | Works well |
|---|---|---|
| 12" × 18" | 12 × 12 in | desk shelves, small nooks, gallery-wall filler |
| 18" × 24" | 18 × 18 in | bedrooms, home offices, above a console or sofa |
| 24" × 36" | 24 × 24 in | living rooms, stairwells, a single statement wall |
The illustration is a square panel centred on the sheet with a clean margin above and below, so it sits well in an off-the-shelf frame with or without a mat. Ships rolled in a protective tube, unframed.
Quick answers
Which size should I order? The 18" × 24" is the safe default for most walls. Take the 12" × 18" for a desk, a shelf or as part of a gallery cluster, and the 24" × 36" when the poster is meant to be the focal point of the room.
Does it come framed? No — it ships rolled and unframed in a protective tube. All three sizes are standard US frame sizes, so a shop-bought frame fits without a custom mat.
Is this a reprint of an original 1930s poster? No. It is an original illustration drawn in the vintage 1930s national-park travel-poster tradition — the same flat colour blocks and bold type, a new composition. Only fourteen genuine posters of that era were ever printed, covering thirteen parks, and this is not one of them.
When do the wildflowers actually look like this? Late July into August, once the snow finally leaves the subalpine meadows. Rainier is 14,410 feet and the most glaciated peak in the contiguous United States, which is why its flower season starts so late.
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