{"product_id":"amarillo-state-of-mind-art-print-betsy-crum","title":"Amarillo Art | Amarillo State of Mind | Betsy Crum","description":"\u003cp\u003eSteinbeck's line is that Texas is a state of mind, an obsession. Amarillo is that with nothing standing in front of it — 3,600 feet up on the Llano Estacado, where you can watch weather come in for an hour before it reaches you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAmarillo Art and West Texas Prints by Betsy Crum\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe name runs across a weathered Texas flag in heavy, slightly broken letterpress capitals, which suits a town that has always been more useful than pretty. Amarillo is wind first: steady, out of the south, moving anything not tied down. Then it is the smell off the feedlots when it shifts, which people up there will tell you, without smiling, smells like money. It is ten Cadillacs buried nose-down in a field off I-40 with somebody's rattling spray can left in the grass beside them. It is flat in every direction for an hour, and then Palo Duro Canyon opens twenty-five miles south with no warning at all, eight hundred feet straight down out of a wheat field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePut it next to the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/big-western-sky-be-nice-alt\"\u003eBe Nice big Texas sky print\u003c\/a\u003e, or line it up with the rest of the series in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/texas-wall-art\"\u003eTexas wall art\u003c\/a\u003e if you are building a wall of home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eQuestions\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDid Steinbeck write this?\u003c\/strong\u003e He wrote the original — \"Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession\" — in \u003cem\u003eTravels with Charley: In Search of America\u003c\/em\u003e (1962). The city and town versions in this series are Crum Art's own riff on his line, not quotations from him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs it a good going-away or housewarming gift?\u003c\/strong\u003e That is most of what it does. It works for someone who grew up in the Panhandle and moved off, and equally for someone who just landed there and is still adjusting to the wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho made it?\u003c\/strong\u003e Betsy Crum, working in Texas. Original family artwork, printed to order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crum Art","offers":[{"title":"8x8 (fits a 12x12 frame)","offer_id":47727577792701,"sku":"amarillo-state-of-mind-betsy-crum-8x8Matted12x12","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x12 (No Mat)","offer_id":47727577956541,"sku":"amarillo-state-of-mind-betsy-crum-12x12NoMat","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16x16","offer_id":47727577989309,"sku":"amarillo-state-of-mind-betsy-crum-16x16","price":78.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20x20","offer_id":47727578022077,"sku":"amarillo-state-of-mind-betsy-crum-20x20","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x24","offer_id":47727578054845,"sku":"amarillo-state-of-mind-betsy-crum-24x24","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0700\/3439\/1229\/files\/SOM_Amarillo8x8_square_gold_frame_129.jpg?v=1778541205","url":"https:\/\/www.crumart.com\/products\/amarillo-state-of-mind-art-print-betsy-crum","provider":"Crum Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}