Kitchen Wall Art

Give them something worth looking at.

Kitchen Wall Art With Texas Personality

This is kitchen wall art that does not take itself too seriously. Old Masters hot dogs. State Fair corn dogs. Happy bananas. Ranch Style Beans, Parker County peaches, and the roadside icons of a Texas summer. It is funny kitchen art first and fine art second, drawn and painted by the Crum family in Fort Worth. Hang one print over the coffee bar, or build a whole gallery wall of food, color and nostalgia.

What Is in This Collection

Most of the kitchen art here started as a still life on a kitchen table. Caya paints the food: an avocado on a chinoiserie plate, a croissant, a Texas breakfast waffle, a Diet Coke beside a jar of bluebonnets. Tavi paints the eggs and bacon. Betsy paints the pantry: Big Red bottles in a Warhol grid, a Ro-Tel can, a Tabasco bottle, a Ball jar, NuGrape and Bubble Up sodas. The Texas Essentials pantry shelf and the Ranch Style Beans amphora are the two big set pieces. Sets of three are ready to hang together: the Refresco Set, the Texas Soda Set, the Brunch Set and the Diet Coke Set.

Eating Room Next Door

Food art works even harder one room over, where people sit still and face the wall for two hours. The larger still lifes, like the Schepps Milk amphora and the peaches, are gathered in dining room wall art and scaled for the distance across a table. Kitchens want small squares in a grid. Dining rooms want one big piece, hung lower than you think.

Colors That Hold Up in a Kitchen

Kitchen walls take steam, grease and daily traffic, so this collection leans on strong color that reads from across the room: pink, tomato red, banana yellow, Big Red red and Diet Coke silver. The prints are made to hang in a plain black or white frame off the shelf. A grid of four or six small squares over a counter looks intentional. One wide print over the range hood looks bold. Both work.

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

Questions

What makes good kitchen wall art? Color and humor that hold up to daily life. Shoppers gravitate to the Old Masters Hot Dog, Happy Bananas, and the Fridge Cigarette print. These are pieces that make guests laugh before the coffee is ready. Avoid anything precious. This is a room with steam and grease in it.

What size works in a kitchen? Small squares in a grid of four or six over a counter or coffee bar, where the viewing distance is short and the wall space is broken up by cabinets. If you are hanging over a dining table instead, invert it: one large piece. See dining room wall art for the pieces scaled that way.

Is kitchen art a good housewarming gift? One of the best, because it is personal without being risky. Jesus Texas & Tacos and the Dairy Queen Big Texas Sky print are favorites for new Texas kitchens. The full housewarming gifts edit goes further.

Does it come framed? No. Everything is in standard sizes, so an off-the-shelf frame fits without a custom order. A kitchen is a room where people want glass they can wipe down.

Can I mix kitchen art with the rest of the house? Yes. The sodas and the Dr Pepper pieces move easily to a bar cart or a game room. The chinoiserie plates sit happily beside the blue-and-white animals in chinoiserie art. Save a spot on the wall art plan for a gallery wall that runs from the kitchen into the hall.

The kitchen is where Texas does its best thinking. Stock the walls from Dr Pepper art, Drink Up, Texas and bar cart art. Find something to take to dinner in hostess gifts. Shop by budget in Texas wall art under $100. Then consult the Field Guide to Texas Food Pop Art for the complete menu. The Warhol cows and the longhorn are in cow art.