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David Bowie Fan Art With a Texas Matchbox Twist
This pen-and-ink piece by Caya Crum puts David Bowie's red-and-blue Aladdin Sane lightning bolt — arguably the single most recognisable image of his career — onto a vintage Texas matchbox cover. It is crisp, graphic fan art living where music wall art meets Lone Star ephemera: small-format wit, big-format cool. The photo-realistic Bowie Eyes Study is its opposite number, and the two hang together with Cowboy Bowie in The Bowie Set. Find more in David Bowie wall art and across music wall art.
Where It'll Work in Your House
Graphic and compact, it suits tighter walls: entryway art, a bar nook, office wall art, or a dorm room. Hang it on a gallery wall with other Texas art, or wrap it up from gifts for him. Stranger things have charted.
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.
Bowie Texas Matchbox
Fine Art Print by Caya Crum
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- Signed by hand
- Archival paper
- Ships in 3–5 days
- Standard frame sizes
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Product FAQ
What is drawn on the matchbox in this David Bowie print?
The lid carries a black silhouette of Texas with the red-and-blue Aladdin Sane lightning bolt struck across it. Spent matches radiate out around the open box like a halo.
What is the Aladdin Sane lightning bolt?
The red and blue flash painted across David Bowie's face on the 1973 Aladdin Sane album cover — probably the most recognizable single image of his career. Here it has been transplanted onto the shape of Texas.
Why combine David Bowie with a box of Texas matches?
Caya Crum draws a great deal of Texas roadside ephemera, and the matchbook is one of its smallest artifacts. Putting the bolt on the state turns a throwaway object into the joke — Bowie as something struck, burned and kept anyway.
What style is this David Bowie matchbox drawing?
Pen and ink, closely hatched, with color used only for the lightning bolt. It reads as a quiet piece until you notice what is on the box. Drawn by Caya Crum, printed to order.
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.