Low and purposeful against a vivid linen-print sky, the distinctive red-brick kilns and green-roofed buildings of the Van Briggle Art Pottery complex in Colorado Springs glow with the quiet confidence of a craft institution that had already won international acclaim — Artus Van Briggle's matte-glaze Art Nouveau pottery had swept Paris expositions in 1903, and by the 1930s the pottery nestled at the foot of Pikes Peak was a celebrated tourist destination drawing visitors who came to watch potters draw "their colorings from the sunset skies." This unused linen-era advertising card, numbered 15422, carries a lyrical printed description on its reverse extolling the Rocky Mountain landscape as muse, and was likely sold in the pottery's own gift shop. The Van Briggle facility depicted here — the original Cheyenne Road building — was later replaced; cards showing this specific structure are sought by both Colorado and art-pottery collectors.