Painted badlands panorama, linen postcard, circa 1940

About this postcard

A wide panoramic view over deeply eroded badlands, with banded ridges of red, orange, ochre and blue-green rock receding to a flat horizon beneath a pale turquoise sky. The vivid, slightly heightened coloring and crosshatched texture are typical of American linen-era view cards of the 1930s–1940s, which often depicted Western badland and desert scenery such as the Painted Desert of Arizona or the South Dakota Badlands. No caption or imprint survives on the front to fix the exact locality.