Tavi Crum | Muse, Calligraphy & Western Portraiture | Crum Art
Tavi Crum
Tavi Crum is an artist and calligrapher whose work carries a quiet elegance—hand lettering and Western portraiture that anchor the Crum Art aesthetic. Fashion-forward and instinctively expressive, she brings wit, elegance, and emotional clarity to everything she touches.
Her own paintings turn everyday things into small, deadpan still lifes—a cold Diet Coke, a plate of eggs and bacon—rendered with the same eye for humor and composition that runs through the family studio.
She is also the model and muse behind her sister Caya Crum’s Smoking Cowgirl portrait—an image that has become one of the most recognized contemporary western icons in the Crum Art collection. In that work, Tavi embodies modern western femininity: confident, composed, and quietly powerful.
As artist, subject, and creative collaborator, Tavi represents the connective tissue between generations of artists in the Crum family—proof that inspiration can be inherited, lived, and reimagined.
Paintings by Tavi
Tavi as muse
Smoking Cowgirl — painted by Caya Crum →
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