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Desert Southwest Photography and Fine Art Prints For Sale

An online gallery of beautiful Southwest Desert pictures for sale as limited edition, luxury fine art prints, and wall art from a professional landscape photographer featuring the American Desert Southwest with its bold colors and dramatic canyons and buttes.

The beautiful Southwest Desert landscape photos found in this Desert Southwest fine art photo gallery include images of deserts and buttes in the Southwest including the states of Utah and Arizona.

These museum-quality Desert landscape photographs are for sale as Fine Art Paper Prints, Metal Prints, and Acrylic Prints. Large-scale beautiful landscape American Southwest Desert fine art prints 8 feet or more in size are available.

Photographing American Southwest Desert Landscape – Facts and Reflections

Deserts are defined by a lack of water and receive less than 10 inches of rain per year. Deserts in the United States cover around 500,000 miles. There are 4 deserts in the United States: Great Basin (the largest and covers 190,000 square miles), Mojave (25,000 square miles), Chihuahuan, and Sonoran (120,000 square miles).

The desert landscape photos often include cacti. The saguaro cactus, Carnegiea gigantea, is the largest cactus in the U.S., commonly reaching 40 feet in height. The desert landscape photos in this gallery capture the drama and majesty where desert landscapes meet rocky buttes and the photographs are enhanced by the colors seen at sunrise or sunset.

The Best Southwest Desert Landscape Photography Locations and Subjects

1. Utah Desert - 2. Factory Butte - 3. Gold Canyon, Arizona - 4. Paria Canyon

How to Purchase an American Southwest Desert Landscape Photo With Confidence

Are you looking to purchase some of the best Southwest Desert landscape photography? Then please consider one of the American Desert Southwest photos from this gallery. I offer you the ability to work directly with me, the photographer and artist, instead of through a gallery art director or manager.

I create high-resolution, museum-quality prints, with limited editions of 100. They are printed using the highest standards and materials in the industry. For more information, see my Print Options and Custom Framing pages.

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Sunset over the desert and mountains at Gold Canyon, Arizona — Golden Sunset

Remote rock formation at sunrise near Canyonlands National Park, Utah — Middle Of Nowhere

a tall rock spire in the middle of a canyon in Utah at sunset — Sunset At The Spire

A purple cloud in a storm over a canyon at sunrise in Utah — Purple Storm

Warm light of the setting sun on a red rock formation in Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada — Valley Of Fire

Warm sunrise light on a red rock butte in New Mexico — Northern Butte

Red and green color in the sand formations in Paria Canyon in Utah — Cascading Colors

Early light on the rock formations in a canyon in Utah — Butte Colors

deep ridges in the rock fornation in early blue light in Utah — Desert Shadows

Sunset sky over Factory Butte in a remote desert in Utah — Factory Butte Sunrise

Storm clouds lit up by the setting sun at Shiprock, New Mexico — Shiprock Drama

closeup of the rock ridges leading up to Factory Butte in Utah — Ridges

A single cloud at sunrise over Factory Butte in the desert in Utah — Factory Fresh

Sunrise storm clouds over a remote canyon in Utah — Desert Buttes

colorful red and green sand and rock sloping down in Paria Canyon, Utah — Desert Flow

Sloping rock and sand of many colors in a remote canyon in Utah — Color Slope

Storm clouds over the desert of the Eastern Sierra, California — Sierra Storm

The red rock formation known as the X-Factor due to its shape in Red Rock Country, Arizona — The X-Factor

Swirling red rock country formations in the area of White Pocket, Arizona — Red Swirl

a view of the Colorado River winding around Horseshoe Bend in the Red Rock Country of Arizona — Horseshoe Bend Morning

A panoramic view of Red Rock Canyon, Nevada after a heavy snowfall — Red Rock Canyon Snowfall

panoramic view of a dramatic rock spire in a remote desert in Utah — The Spire

A panoramic view of Red Rock Canyon after an unexpected snowfall in the red rock country of Nevada — Red Rock Canyon

A panoramic view of Factory Butte at sunrise in the desert of southern Utah — Factory Butte Sunrise

Swirling shapes and colors in the red rock country formations in the area of White Pocket, Arizona — Bursting

Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly with snow on the red rock in Arizona — Cold Spider

A vertical view of Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona — The Spider

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Fine Art From the Desert Southwest

We all like the mountains, coastlines, lakes, and rivers for the scenery they offer. The desert areas of the American Southwest offer scenery that is completely different. There may not be trees and water, but the rock formations and desert skies can be an unforgettable combination. It can all be preserved in a Fine Art Print.

Visiting and Photographing Desert Landscapes

This gallery represents areas that are comprised of arid deserts with just a few trees to absolutely barren deserts with only sand dunes. The most famous sand dunes are shown in our separate Death Valley Gallery.

Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, South Dakota, and California contain some beautiful deserts. The impression that deserts are bland and colorless is simply not the case as evidenced by our photographs in Utah. Many of the desert areas are comprised of Red Rock as shown in our Red Rock Country gallery.

The American Deserts in Arizona have their rock formations and cactus. New Mexico has its white gypsum sand at White Sands National Park. Utah has amazing colors in Paria Canyon. There is Red Rock in Monument Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Zion National Park, Arches National Park, and Canyonlands National Park.

South Dakota has it’s incredible Badlands. There are more areas of Deserts to explore for landscape and nature photographs than one can do in a lifetime. That doesn’t mean I can’t try.