San Antonio Art | Fiesta State of Mind | Betsy Crum

Steinbeck's line was that Texas is a state of mind, an obsession. He wrote it in Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1962), and the Fiesta version is Crum Art's own riff on that line — those are not Steinbeck's words, and he never wrote a syllable about Fiesta. Fiesta is what happens when an entire city agrees to be obsessed at the same time, for eleven days, every April, since 1891.

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Fiesta State of Mind — San Antonio art print by Betsy Crum in a square carved wood frame

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Fiesta Texas Flag Art by Betsy Crum

This one puts FIESTA in worn letterpress capitals over a weathered Texas flag, which is about right — the thing began as a nod to San Jacinto and the Alamo and turned into something considerably noisier. If you grew up here, the word is not an event, it is a smell: anticucho smoke and spilled beer drifting through La Villita on a NIOSA night, chicken on a stick in one hand and no room in the crowd to lift the other. It is somebody's grandmother cracking a cascarón on the crown of your head so the confetti goes straight down your shirt. It is medals — traded, begged for, pinned on until the sash clanks when you walk — and Battle of Flowers Friday, when the schools let out for a parade that women founded in 1891 and women still run.

It works in a kitchen or an entry, and it works better next to the Earl Abel's Viva Fiesta marquee or anything else in San Antonio art prints.

Betsy Crum, working in Texas. Original family artwork, printed to order.

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

What is Fiesta, for anyone who did not grow up with it?

Eleven days every April in San Antonio, running since 1891. It began as a nod to San Jacinto and the Alamo and turned into something considerably noisier.

Where does a Fiesta print live the other eleven months?

A kitchen or an entry. The worn letterpress palette keeps it from reading as party decor in November.

Is this one for the medal traders?

Them especially, plus the people who host, and anyone who left San Antonio and still plans April around getting back.

What does it hang with?

The Earl Abel's Viva Fiesta marquee is the obvious companion. Anything else from the city rounds it out.

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.