Home > Best Sites to Visit > Photo Galleries
Because extensive public visiting of rock art sites necessarily causes damage, even if single visitors are not aware of it, and even when it is legally permitted, we all need to become accustomed to virtual visits, relying on others who make available their photos. Please enjoy many photo galleries on other web sites, listed lower on this page, galleries assembled by a wide range of people who appreciate rock art and who take care to leave no traces of their visits. Photo galleries we provide links to generally have higher quality photos, and it is possible to click on the photos to see them in larger format. Please do visit sites which are especially well managed and intended for public visits. Click here for a beginning list.
On this web site, some of our pages have a left sidebar with images, intended just for interest and to give a flavor, usually a different site or theme on each of our pages. These are generally single motifs, or panels which were created as single compositions at one time. The number and quality of these images will gradually increase. For a current list, please click here to go to the page "Latest Changes". In two cases, images which have had their contrast enhanced simply by using the "Levels Adjustment" sliders of Photoshop CS2 are available for comparison (the result can be greater contrast, but also some alteration of colors).
It would be nice to link here also to a list of the best books of photographs of Rock Art. We need to develop clear and easily applied criteria for which links will be included here and which will not, to be certain that the decisions are made objectively. Please take a look at the page "Art Inspired by Rock Art" for a similar situation where the criteria are perhaps more obvious to formulate.
Utah and the Four Corners
Ray Rasmussen “Rock Art of the Southwest” (Grand Gulch, Horseshoe Canyon,
Maze, Moab, Natural Bridges, Needles, Newspaper Rock, Shay Canyon)
Click here. http://raysweb.net/rockart
Brian Lee “(Mostly Barrier Canyon Style) Rock Art Photo Collection”
(Buckhorn Wash, San Rafael Swell sites, Barrier Canyon, Grand County, Sego Canyon,
Book Cliffs, Rangely, Colorado sites)
Click here. http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Ebclee/rockart/myrockart.html
Max Bertola “Horseshoe Canyon”
Click here. http://www.so-utah.com/capitol/horsshoe/homepage.html
Max Bertola “Sego Canyon” (pre-restoration)
Click here. http://www.so-utah.com/green/segocny/homepage.html
Max Bertola “Buckhorn Wash” (pre-restoration)
Click here. http://www.so-utah.com/price/buckhorn/homepage.html
Bill Hyder “Grand Gulch Rock Art Research Project”
Click here. (link broken, can’t find)
James Q. Jacobs “Rock Art Pages” (Utah, 4 Corners, a few Pecos in Texas)
Click here. http://www.jqjacobs.net/rock_art/
Doak Heyser “Native American Rock Art of the Southwestern United States” (Utah, 4 Corners)
Click here. http://net.indra.com/~dheyser/rockart.html
Mary Allen “Grand Canyon Polychrome Pictographs”
Click here. http://www.xmission.com/~mkallen/gcpoly/gcpoly2.html
Brad Weiss “Ancient Anasazi Rock Art Panels – Moab, Utah”
Click here. http://moab-utah.com/anasazi/rockart.html
Alan Barbick Photographs from URARA trips to Las Vegas area, Southern Utah, Northern Arizona
Click here. http://www.ancientartreproductions.com/petroglyphs.html
Texas
The Rock Art Foundation (Texas)
Rock Art Gallery (Pecos River style, Red Linear style, Red Monochrome style, Historical style, Petroglyphs)
Click here. http://www.rockart.org/gallery/index.html
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Pueblos
Pueblo of Sandia Petroglyph Project
Click here. http://www.cs.unm.edu/~brayer/rock/sandia.html
International Rock Art Database Project (Petroglyph National Monument, Sandia Pueblo, and in Australia Wardamon region and North Queensland region rock art)
Click here. http://www.cs.unm.edu/~brayer/rock/general.html
Nevada
Bob & Penny “Nevada Places”
Click here. http://www.nevadaplaces.com/
Bob Forsyth “Petroglyph / Rock Art Sites in Southern Nevada”
Click here. http://www.nevadarockart.info/
B. K. Swartz “Archive of Rock Art Photographs” (perhaps Nevada petroglyphs only?)
Click here. http://web.bsu.edu/rockart/
California, Baja California
Bill Hyder "TOMOL. An On-Line Archive of Digital Images of Rock Art from the Western United States."
Click here. http://humwww.ucsc.edu/tomol/
Maturango Museum, some pictures of Coso rock art
Click here. http://www.maturango.org/Petpicts.html
Another link provided by the Maturango Museum web site. The National Park Service has developed a page of petroglyph info featuring Coso Rock Art. Be sure and check all the side boxes and under the flashing X box for info.
Click here. http://www.nps.gov/history/archeology/rockArt/index.htm
Bradshaw Foundation “Rock Art of Coso”
Click here. http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/coso/coso.php
Bradshaw Foundation “Rock Art of Baja California”
Click here. http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/coso/baja.php
John Campbell “Petroglyphs and Rock Paintings” (Baja California and US Southwest)
(forbidden, don’t have permission to access)
http://my.execpc.com/~jcampbel/
Jon Harmon “DStretch” (Buenavista, Bacon Hill, Rocky Hill in Tulare Co.; Cueva Pintada in Baja)
Click here. http://www.dstretch.com/
Don Austin “Petroglyphs.US” CA: Renegade Canyon and Sheep Canyon, Cosos; Little Blair Valley, Picture Canyon, Selby Rocks, Arrastre Spring, Indian Well, Atlatl Cliff, Ayer’s Rock, Blue Sun Cave, Mule Tank, Death Valley, Corn Spring, Coyote Hole, Greenwater Canyon, Black Tank Wash, Sheep Springs, Inscription Canyon, Howe’s Tank, Steam Well, Surprise Tank, Black Canyon; Baja: 3 N sites; Nevada: hanging Mesa; UT: Anasazi Ridge, Lower Butler Wash; Nine Mile Canyon; AZ: Painted Rock Reservoir, New Well, Chevelon Creek; NM: Santa Rosa
Click here. http://www.petroglyphs.us/index.htm
Oregon
"Rock Art Planet"
Click here. http://oregonrockart.com/gallery.htm
"Favorites" from the latter site Click here.
Montana, Wyoming
Greer, John & Mavis - Greer Services, Archaeological Consulting
Rock Art in Montana and Wyoming [The original page is currently not available, being rebuilt.
The following URL is retained temporarily but is completely general, currently does not lead to photo calleries.]
http://greerservices.com/html/RockArtFrameset.html
This list combines links from the URARA and Piedra Pintada web sites, eliminating those for which the web pages could not be found, and adding a few others. We can attempt to maintain such a comprehensive list for the USA, filtered to make sure only sites with extensive photo collections are included, or we can accept less carefully filtered lists by linking indirectly via sites which have the largest number of screened links, if we think there are sites with that good coverage. But all such sites examined had numerous broken links.