Cow Art

Cow Art From a State That Takes Cattle Personally

Texas has more cattle than any other state and roughly the same amount of opinion about them, so it follows that the Crums keep painting them. This is the cow art in the studio, gathered in one place: a grid of Warhol cows in candy color, the Money Cow in hot pink, Hazel in her gold earring and ear tag 926, a blue-and-white chinoiserie longhorn that thinks it is a vase, a bull rendered as a shadow puppet, a steer mid-trip at the rodeo, and a cow skull keeping company with a prickly pear.

Cow Prints for the Kitchen, the Dining Room, and the Ranch House

A cow reads well at any distance, which is why cow wall art ends up in so many rooms. The pop-art pieces are loud and want a kitchen or a bar wall. The chinoiserie longhorn is quiet and wants a dining room or an entry. Hazel is a portrait and behaves like one. If you are hanging a set, mix a graphic piece with a painted one — the contrast does more than three of the same thing ever will.

Questions

What styles of cow art are here?
Pop art, chinoiserie blue-and-white, pen-and-ink portraiture, rodeo drawing and one desert still life. All of it original work by the Crum family, no two pieces in the same hand.

Is there longhorn art in this collection?
Yes — the chinoiserie longhorn bull is the one people come for. Texas cattle imagery also runs through the wider western art collection.

Who is the Money Cow?
A cow in hot pink who appears to know exactly what she is worth. Ask Caya.

Does it come framed?
No. Everything is in standard sizes, so an off-the-shelf frame fits without a custom order.

Original family artwork by Betsy and Caya Crum, working in Texas. Printed to order.

The rest of the herd and its neighbors: western art for the full body of work, horse art prints for the ones that get ridden, chinoiserie animal prints for the blue-and-white set, rodeo art for the arena, kitchen wall art for the room the pop pieces usually land in, and dining room wall art for the ones scaled to hang over a table.