Texas Art | Allsup's Under a Big Sky | Betsy Crum

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That sign on the horizon means burritos, gas, and forty more miles of nothing. Perfect.

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Allsup's Under a Big Sky — Texas art print by Betsy Crum in a carved wood frame

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Allsup's Under a Big Sky — West Texas Art by Betsy Crum

One red-and-white Allsup's sign on a tall pole, a mile of soft teal sky, and nothing else — because out there, nothing else is the whole point. If you've driven eastern New Mexico or West Texas, you know exactly what this sign means: you made it to the next town, and there's a deep-fried burrito waiting.

The burrito has a birthday. On September 7, 1974, a man named Bob Pitcock working the Clovis store dropped a baked bean-and-beef burrito into the doughnut fryer to see what would happen. The next wave of customers bought every one he made. Lonnie Allsup put a vent hood over that fryer, and the chain has been turning out something like twenty-two million of them a year ever since.

The country that sign stands in holds more than it lets on. Santa Fe is where the Manhattan Project kept its front door — a small office at 109 East Palace Avenue where Dorothy McKibbin handed out passes to everyone headed up to Los Alamos, sixty-five people on a busy day, not one of them allowed to say where they were going. South of there, Trinity lit up the basin in July of 1945, and White Sands still runs white and blank past Alamogordo. There's an Allsup's in most of those towns now. The desert got the bomb in '45, Allsup's in '56, and the fried burrito in '74 — and two of the three are still open late.

Where It'll Work in Your House

All that open sky makes it wonderful roadside art for a dining room, kitchen, or entryway — anywhere a conversation might need starting. It hangs beautifully next to the rest of our Texas wall art, and it's a standing pick from our homesick Texan gifts for the one who moved to Denver and still brings it up.

Betsy Crum, working in Texas. Original family artwork, printed to order — more of Betsy's work here.

Give it more weather in Texas sky wall art, go wider with western art, or line it up with the rest of the roadside crew — Arrow Ford over in Abilene and the Dr Pepper print — and call the whole wall a road trip.

Fine Art Prints Made in Fort Worth, Texas

Since 1996, Crum Art has created original art, paintings, and fine art prints in Fort Worth, showing and selling work at hundreds of art shows across Texas.

Print Details

  • Museum-grade giclee: archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag paper
  • Unframed and sized to fit standard frames
  • Studio-made, artist-signed prints only available directly from Crum Art

Made in Texas.

Made with love. Signed by hand. Shipped with care. Hung with joy.

Product FAQ

Why do people love Allsup's so much?

Ask a customer: one reviewer grew up across the street from an Allsup's and bought this print to bring her brother the memories. That's the brand.

What room does the Allsup's print hang in?

Dining rooms and kitchens, where food nostalgia belongs — and entryways, where guests spot the sign and start telling burrito stories.

Is this a good gift for a Texas Tech grad?

It's practically required. Lubbock runs on Allsup's burritos, and every Red Raider knows it.

What pairs with it on a wall?

The Dr Pepper grid and the Topo Chico bottles — together they're the complete Texas road-trip food pyramid.

Will this look like an original painting or a print?

Crum Art takes the scanning and photographing of original paintings seriously — we work to capture the texture of the canvas or paper the original was created on, so that texture shows through in the print. Combined with the cotton rag paper’s own subtle surface and the hand-signing, many customers say they cannot tell if it’s an original or a print. That’s intentional. These are not flat digital reproductions — they are fine art prints that carry the soul of the original.

What sizes does this print come in?

Our fine art prints are available in standard rectangle and square sizes. Rectangles: 8x10 unframed matted to 11x14, 11x14 unframed, 16x20, 18x24, and 24x36. Squares: 8x8 unframed matted to 12x12, 12x12 unframed, 16x16, 20x20, and 24x24. Each size ships ready to frame, making it easy to find the right fit for your wall.

How do I make a gallery wall with art prints?

Start with an anchor piece and build outward — many Crum Art prints are part of series designed to group together as a statement gallery wall, or hang individually as standalone pieces. Since every image is sized to fit standard frames, mixing sizes is easy: lay the arrangement out on the floor first, keep about two to three inches between frames, and center the whole grouping at eye level.