{"product_id":"austin-state-of-mind-art-print-betsy-crum","title":"Austin Art | Austin State of Mind | Betsy Crum","description":"\u003cp\u003eSteinbeck said Texas is a state of mind, and an obsession besides. He was right, but he drew the border too wide. Austin has its own weather, its own religion, and its own opinion of both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAustin Quote Wall Art by Betsy Crum\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack letterpress capitals over a weathered Texas flag, printed on cream that looks scraped rather than painted. Austin is Barton Springs at sixty-eight degrees in February and a line of people willing to get in anyway. It is breakfast tacos eaten standing up, cedar fever every January that everyone insists is not allergies, and I-35 doing what I-35 does. It is also the greenbelt going bone dry by August and filling back up in one afternoon of rain. The colors here are faded on purpose — a flag left out on a porch on the east side, not something new off a rack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt looks right in a kitchen, an entry, or over a record shelf. The rest of the city is in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/austin-art-prints-gifts\"\u003eAustin art prints\u003c\/a\u003e, and it hangs comfortably with the other \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/quotes-wall-art\"\u003eTexas quote prints\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eQuestions\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDid Steinbeck write \"Austin is a state of mind\"?\u003c\/strong\u003e No. \"Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession.\" is his, from \u003cem\u003eTravels with Charley: In Search of America\u003c\/em\u003e, 1962. The Austin version is Crum Art's own riff on that line — his sentence, our idea to shrink it to a city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGood housewarming gift?\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes, particularly for someone who just moved to Austin, or someone who left and still says \"back home\" about it.\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":47727576023229,"sku":"austin-state-of-mind-8x8-matted-12x12","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x12 (No Mat)","offer_id":47727576121533,"sku":"austin-state-of-mind-12x12","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16x16","offer_id":47727576154301,"sku":"austin-state-of-mind-16x16","price":78.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20x20","offer_id":47727576187069,"sku":"austin-state-of-mind-20x20","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x24","offer_id":47727576219837,"sku":"austin-state-of-mind-24x24","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0700\/3439\/1229\/files\/SOM_Austin_8x8_square_gold_frame_130.jpg?v=1778541205","url":"https:\/\/www.crumart.com\/products\/austin-state-of-mind-art-print-betsy-crum","provider":"Crum Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}