Desert Art | White Sands Yucca | Betsy Crum

White Sands Yucca — a bleached yucca skeleton reaching into a vast desert sky, photographed at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Cream on blue. Bone on atmosphere. The desert at its most geological and most beautiful.

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White Sands Yucca — desert art print by Betsy Crum in a carved wood frame

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$50.00
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7 FT SOFA (REFERENCE) 8×10" 11×14" 16×20" 18×24" 24×36"

All prints ship unframed. Rectangular and square prints fit standard frame sizes.

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Desert Wall Art and Southwest Art by Betsy Crum

Betsy Crum's White Sands series captures the New Mexico desert the way photographers and painters have chased it for a century — that particular quality of light, the gypsum dunes, the yucca that survives everything. A desert landscape art print for people who have driven through White Sands and never quite recovered, and a natural gift for New Mexico lovers and southwest art collectors.

White Sands does quiet better than anywhere. Keep the calm going with more cactus art, the rest of the desert wall art, big weather in Texas sky wall art, and our western wall art.

Fine Art Prints Made in Fort Worth, Texas

Since 1996, Crum Art has created original art, paintings, and fine art prints in Fort Worth, showing and selling work at hundreds of art shows across Texas.

Print Details

  • Museum-grade giclee: archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag paper
  • Unframed and sized to fit standard frames
  • Studio-made, artist-signed prints only available directly from Crum Art

Made in Texas.

Made with love. Signed by hand. Shipped with care. Hung with joy.

Product FAQ

What am I looking at here?

A bleached yucca skeleton reaching up into the sky at White Sands in New Mexico. Cream on blue, bone on atmosphere, and the gypsum doing the rest.

Which rooms suit cream and blue?

Bedrooms, offices, and minimal galleries. It is the most restrained thing in the desert group and behaves accordingly.

Is this the right gift for a New Mexico person?

It is a natural one, along with desert travelers and southwest collectors. Anyone who has driven through White Sands and never quite recovered will know it on sight.

Does it belong with the Texas prints?

It is New Mexico, not Texas, and it does not pretend otherwise. It still hangs comfortably with the cactus work and the big sky pieces.

Will this look like an original painting or a print?

Crum Art takes the scanning and photographing of original paintings seriously — we work to capture the texture of the canvas or paper the original was created on, so that texture shows through in the print. Combined with the cotton rag paper’s own subtle surface and the hand-signing, many customers say they cannot tell if it’s an original or a print. That’s intentional. These are not flat digital reproductions — they are fine art prints that carry the soul of the original.

What sizes does this print come in?

Our fine art prints are available in standard rectangle and square sizes. Rectangles: 8x10 unframed matted to 11x14, 11x14 unframed, 16x20, 18x24, and 24x36. Squares: 8x8 unframed matted to 12x12, 12x12 unframed, 16x16, 20x20, and 24x24. Each size ships ready to frame, making it easy to find the right fit for your wall.

How do I make a gallery wall with art prints?

Start with an anchor piece and build outward — many Crum Art prints are part of series designed to group together as a statement gallery wall, or hang individually as standalone pieces. Since every image is sized to fit standard frames, mixing sizes is easy: lay the arrangement out on the floor first, keep about two to three inches between frames, and center the whole grouping at eye level.