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New Braunfels Texas Hill Country Art by Betsy Crum
Here it is a distressed Texas silhouette filled with the flag — dusty blue, cream, faded brick red, a worn white star — laid over a chalky cream plaster ground and stamped with rough black letterpress capitals. Fitting for a town settled in 1845 by people who brought bakeries and dance halls with them and then found water that stays about seventy-two degrees no matter the month. The Comal runs roughly two and a half miles from spring to mouth, one of the shortest rivers in the country, and most of the state has floated it. Cypress roots hold the banks together. Somebody's cooler is always tied to somebody's tube. Up the road in Gruene the dance hall floor has been taking boot heels since 1878 and nobody has bothered to level it. And for ten days every November the whole town eats sausage on purpose, with an accordion going.
Good over a bar cart, in a river house, or lined up with the rest of the Texas Hill Country art. It also turns up as a hostess gift for whoever owns the place on the river.
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.
New Braunfels State of Mind
Fine Art Print by Betsy Crum
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- Signed by hand
- Archival paper
- Ships in 3–5 days
- Standard frame sizes
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Product FAQ
Why is there a German town in the Hill Country?
New Braunfels was settled in 1845 by German immigrants who brought bakeries and dance halls with them, then found water that stays about seventy-two degrees no matter the month. The town never stopped being that.
River house or regular house?
Both take it. It is good over a bar cart in town and better in a river house, where it turns into a hostess gift for whoever owns the place.
What do people give this for?
Wedding weekends, first houses, and anyone who spent childhood summers floating the Comal with a cooler tied to a tube.
What else goes on a Hill Country wall?
The Concan print is the closest cousin, and the rest of the Hill Country work fills in around them.
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.