Build Your Crum Art Gallery Wall

This page is the Crum family's gallery wall art edit: colorful Texas and western prints chosen because they share colors, hang well together, and start at $50 each, so a real starter wall costs less than one big-box canvas.

Gallery Wall Art That Was Made to Mix

Every print here carries a color that shows up somewhere else in the group. That is the whole trick to a wall that reads as collected rather than random. Pull the pink from Betsy Crum's pink bluebonnets into Caya Crum's Money Cow and the pastel disco ball; pull the sky blue from Be Nice Big Texas Sky into the Braum's sign and the Dallas Pegasus. A smoking cowboy cat next to a rainbow bronc next to the Dr Pepper grid is exactly the point.

Sets of 3 Wall Art, Already Matched

If you would rather not curate, three sets are pre-built as trios by one artist on one idea: The Soft Serve Set (a Dairy Queen cone painted three ways), The Deadpan Set (a Big Mac in a Gerber jar, Venus with pizza, Frank N. Furter), and The Small Town Texas Set (Farrah Fawcett, the Round Top Hollywood sign, a Dollar General). Betsy's State of Mind series works the same way at any count: Texas, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Marfa, Amarillo, Denton, New Braunfels, Concan and College Station, all drawn to hang as a row.

How to Build a Gallery Wall

Start with one anchor print you love. Add two companions that share a color with it, one for the story and one just because it makes you smile. Lay the three on the floor, or tape paper cut to size on the wall, before you drive a nail. Keep the gaps consistent, about two to three inches between frames, and hang the center of the whole arrangement at eye level, roughly fifty-seven to sixty inches from the floor. Then stop. The best gallery walls are built over years, and three prints with room around them is a real start.

Gallery Wall Layout, Room by Room

A living room wall over the sofa wants a loose grid, wider than the sofa is tall, with the biggest print just off center. A hallway or staircase wants a line that climbs with the stairs, same gap between every frame. A small gallery wall, the kind that fits beside a door or above a bar cart, is three or four squares in a tight block. Mixed frames read as home; identical frames and one subject read as showroom. A repeated color does the unifying work so the frames do not have to.

Questions

How many prints do you need for a gallery wall?

Three makes a real start. Six to nine fills most living room and hallway walls. Because every print in this collection starts at $50, a full starter wall of three costs about what one large canvas does at a big-box store.

Should the frames match?

Not all of them. Two frame styles across the wall, or one style in two finishes, looks collected. All-identical frames work only when the subjects vary a lot, which here they do.

What goes in the middle?

The piece with the most color, hung just off center and slightly lower than instinct says. Everything else takes its cue from that one.

Can I mix these with art I already own?

Yes, and it is the best version of a gallery wall. Pull one color out of what you have and choose the new prints to repeat it.

Gallery walls are never finished, only paused. Pull anchors from Texas wall art and western art, keep an eye on the new print drop for fresh additions, and fill the awkward gaps from prints under $100.