Sonoran Desert desert is a popular route to attempt unauthorized entry across the border. The harsh conditions mean that the 3-5-day march, usually moving at night to minimize exposure to the heat, often ends in death. There are many National Parks and Monuments; federal and state nature reserves and wildlife refuges; state, county, and city parks; and government or nonprofit group operated natural history museums, science research institutes, and botanical gardens and desert landscape gardens. Sonoran Desert The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which covers large parts of the Southwestern United States in Arizona and California and of Northwestern Mexico
Saint Jerome in the Desert (Pinturicchio) In 1931 it formed part of the original core of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, where it still hangs. It was restored in 1966. Saint Jerome in the Desert (Pinturicchio) Saint Jerome in the Desert is a 149.8 by 106 cm oil on panel painting by Pinturicchio, painted c.1475-1480 and showing Jerome. It is one of the earliest dated paintings attributed to the artist and was produced just after his contributions to the "Miracles of St Bernardino" series (1473). It is recorded as being in the Bartoccini family collection in Perugia before entering the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, where it