Chinoiserie Wall Art

The Crum Art Chinoiserie Collection takes the animals a Texas kid raises for the county show, the steer, the lamb, the pig, the rabbit, the chicken and the horse, and paints them in the blue-and-white of antique china, traditional chinoiserie and Southern heirloom décor. Chinoiserie wall art, chinoiserie prints and sets of three, signed and made to order in Fort Worth.

Blue-and-White Chinoiserie Animal Art: the 4-H Animals

Every animal in the blue-and-white series is a show animal. The Chinoiserie Longhorn Bull is the steer at the head of the ring, patterned like a ginger jar. The Chinoiserie Lamb, the Pig, the Rabbit and the Chicken are the barn in porcelain. The horses come three ways: full body, portrait and carousel. Betsy Crum describes the series as “4-H animals rendered in the classical chinoiserie style, especially for the rodeo crowd.”

Pink Chinoiserie and Staffordshire Dogs

The same universe, a different palette. Caya Crum’s Staffordshire dogs are the English mantel spaniels every Southern grandmother kept in pairs, painted in blue, in hot pink, tattooed and beaded: the Blue Good Dog, the Pink Luck Dog, the Preppy Staffordshire Cat that thinks it is one, and The Staffordshire Set of all three. Pink chinoiserie art for a powder room, a nursery or a mantel that needs a pair.

Chinoiserie for the Mahjong Table

Blue-and-white and mahjong go together the way tiles and iced tea do. A chinoiserie print over the card table, a Staffordshire pair on the mantel behind it, and the room is set. Caya paints live at Mahj for Meals at River Crest Country Club this October; the mahjong art that comes out of that evening lands here first.

Chinoiserie Prints, Sets of Three and Kitchen Pieces

Hang one, or hang a barn: The Pasture Set, The Barnyard Set and The Stable Set are three chinoiserie prints priced under the singles. For the kitchen there is the Croissant on a Chinoiserie Plate and the Avocado on a Chinoiserie Plate; for the entry, Floral Cowboy Boots; for the cat person, Suki. Every print comes in five sizes from 8x10 (matted) to 24x36 on archival cotton rag paper, and any three are 20% off in the gallery wall layout generator.

Art for Farmhouse, Cottage and Ranch-House Interiors

These blue-and-white art prints are especially suited for modern farmhouse and cottagecore rooms, ranch houses and Southern homes, kitchens, breakfast rooms, mudrooms and entryways, nurseries and children’s rooms, 4-H and FFA families, blue-and-white gallery walls, and collectors of chinoiserie and whimsical animal art. They pair with ginger jars, toile, wicker, botanical prints and blue-and-white ceramics.

Chinoiserie Art Questions

What is chinoiserie wall art?
Chinoiserie is the European decorative style, from the 1600s on, that borrowed Chinese motifs: blue-and-white porcelain, pagodas, birds and flowering branches. Chinoiserie wall art today means prints in that palette and pattern language. Crum Art’s version puts Texas 4-H animals inside it.

Why 4-H animals?
Because the Crums sell at the Fort Worth Stock Show, where the steers, lambs, pigs, rabbits and chickens are raised and shown by 4-H and FFA kids. Painting them in porcelain blue is the studio’s way of hanging the barn in the dining room.

Do the pink Staffordshire dogs go with the blue-and-white prints?
Yes. Same paper, same gilt-frame mockups, same universe. The blue dog sits with the animals; the pink dog is the accent.

Is chinoiserie art still in style?
Blue-and-white never left. Grandmillennial and Southern-traditional rooms lean on it, and a chinoiserie print is the easiest way to add it without buying a ginger jar.

Explore Related Crum Art Collections

The blue-and-white collection has relatives throughout the studio: Staffordshire dogs, cat art featuring Suki, cow art featuring the chinoiserie longhorn, dog art, kitchen wall art featuring patterned plates, and western art created for the rodeo crowd.