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Howdy Stranger — Howdy Wall Art by Betsy Crum
Betsy painted an old friend here: the weathered neon sign from Threadgill's in Austin, the filling station that turned into a beer joint back in the thirties and never looked back. "Howdy" swings across the top in looping red script, "STRANGER" sits underneath in no-nonsense block letters, and the whole panel hums with a yellow-and-pink glow like it just flickered on for the evening. She floated all that beautiful wear and tear on a field of flat turquoise, the way a museum frames something it's proud of. If old Austin neon is your first language, her Continental Club print speaks it fluently too.
That sign greeted some serious history. Kenneth Threadgill ran the place, hosted hootenannies on Wednesday nights, and a nineteen-year-old Janis Joplin sang under that glow before anybody outside Austin knew her name. The sign never made a fuss about any of it — it just kept saying howdy to whoever walked up, which is about the most Texas job a piece of neon ever had. There's more where this came from in our Austin prints and gifts.
Where It'll Work in Your House
This is entryway wall art in the most literal sense — a greeting hung where the greetings happen. Put it in the front hall and your house says howdy before you can get to the door. It's a horizontal piece, so it also loves the wide spots most art can't handle: over a doorway, above a console or an entry bench, along the top of a bar. And if your front room doubles as a watch-party room, it pairs beautifully with the Game Day Howdy in burnt orange — or go all in and build a whole wall of hellos from the howdy signs and wall art collection.
If you keep a soft spot for the halls where Texas music grew up, Caya's Shiner at Gruene Hall print belongs on the same wall. Painted by Betsy Crum in Texas, printed to order — the rest of her paintings are gathered in the Betsy Crum collection.
Every house has a spot that does the welcoming, whether it's a proper entryway or three feet of wall by the coat hooks. Give that spot a voice. If you like your howdys quieter, there's the minimalist black and white Howdy; if you like them louder, Caya's Howdy Horse in neon yellow will happily out-shout everyone. Either way, somebody's getting greeted.
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.
Any 3 prints, 20% off at checkout — mix & match sizes.
Hangs as a set of 2The Howdy Set2 prints from $120 · 20% under the singles
Product FAQ
What does howdy mean?
Howdy is a warm, all-purpose greeting that grew out of the old phrase "how do ye" — a short way of asking how somebody's doing. Texas adopted it generations ago and never gave it back. It works on friends, strangers, dogs, and entire rooms, it requires no reply, and it comes with a built-in smile. If you say it and mean it, you're doing it right.
What style of art is the Howdy Stranger print?
It's a painterly portrait of an old neon sign — a weathered, scuffed panel with red script and block lettering, the glow rendered in warm yellow and pink. Betsy Crum painted it from a beloved piece of Austin neon, so it carries real history in the wear marks, but it hangs like a painting rather than a sign replica.
Is the Howdy Stranger print horizontal or vertical?
Horizontal — it's a landscape-format piece, wider than it is tall. That shape fills the long, low stretches most vertical art can't: a headboard wall, the run above a sofa, or the wide gap over the coat hooks.
Can the Howdy Stranger print hang with the rest of the howdy set?
It has a whole family. The Game Day Howdy in burnt orange and the Fort Worth TCU Purple Howdy carry the same greeting in team colors, the Minimalist Black and White Howdy keeps it quiet, and Caya Crum's Howdy Horse in neon yellow turns the volume up. You'll find them all together in the Howdy Signs and Wall Art collection.
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.