Badlands Wall Badlands National Park Wall Art | Vintage Prairie Print

The Badlands Wall is the long eroded ridge that divides the upper prairie from the lower one, and this vintage Badlands National Park poster catches it from the grass. Banded spires of rust, buff and pale ochre pile up on the left while a sea of mixed-grass prairie runs gold-green to a flat blue horizon, sun high and the air clear.

Why you'll love it

• Painted in the golden-age national park poster style: horizontal colour bands stacked through the buttes, fine drawn strokes for the grass, and the sky graded from deep blue down to pale at the plain.
• It names the exact place. The Badlands Wall, White River Badlands, South Dakota, with the park date and the coordinates 43.75 N, 102.50 W set along the bottom edge.
• Badlands was redesignated a national park in 1978 after nearly forty years as a national monument, and its layered rock preserves one of the richest fossil beds of the Oligocene epoch.
• Rust red, buff, ochre and dry olive grass make a calm palette for a hallway, a home office or a room with wood floors.
• Drawn in the same style as the rest of the 63-park series, so several hang together as one set.

Materials and sizes

• Paper: museum-grade matte art paper with archival pigment inks, 2:3 vertical format.
• Canvas: matte gallery canvas, or ready-to-hang framed canvas in white, black, espresso or natural wood.
• Sizes: 8x12" through 30x40", plus A4 to A1 for European frames.
• Made to order with colour-managed printing.

Styling it at home

Two thirds of this print is dry grass, which makes it one of the quieter pieces in the series and an easy fit for a room you already furnished. The olive and buff tones agree with oatmeal linen, jute and unpainted oak, and the rust band up top gives a terracotta cushion or a leather chair something to answer. It hangs well in a long hallway where you pass it rather than sit under it.

Shipping and care

Paper prints ship rolled in a rigid tube. Framed canvas arrives ready to hang with hardware fitted. Keep the print out of direct sunlight and wipe the surface with a dry, soft cloth.

FAQ

How is this different from the other Badlands prints in the shop? This is the Badlands Wall view, with the location and coordinates lettered at the foot of the poster. The other Badlands designs show different views in mid-century, oil painting and watercolour styles.

Is a frame included with the paper print? No. Paper prints ship unframed; the framed options are the framed canvas materials.