Vintage color linen postcard by Curt Teich.
Marked on back: "118 Hopi Indian Pueblo". "Genuine Curteich-Chicago C. T. art-colortone post card (reg. u.s. pat. off.)
The number (118) would date it to the 1920s.
Condition: unused, excellent.
The photo is by J.R.Willis, a noted photographer and painter.
J. R. Willis was born November 24th, 1976 in Goloid Community, Screven County, Georgia near Sylvania.
His artistic career began as a political cartoonist during the Spanish American War. He also made fashion drawings for the Atlanta Constitution newspaper.
Around 1908 he went to New York and studied painting with Robert Henri.
Next he went to Hollywood where he painted backdrops for Universal Studios. He also spent ten years in vaudeville as a "chalk talk" artist.
In 1917 Willis was headed for New York to look for syndication for his cartoons, when he stopped in Arizona to sketch Hopis. He decided to stay in the Southwest and set up a photography studio in Gallup, New Mexico.
As he toured many of the pueblos to take photos, he began doing paintings from his photos.