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Texas Rodeo Queen — Typography Rodeo Art by Betsy Crum
Betsy built it from the two things a rodeo queen and the Fourth of July have in common: stars and a shit ton of energy. The type is straight and proud, the background is a party. It is rodeo art for a girl's room, a barn apartment, or anyone who has sat a horse in a tiara.
It suits a bedroom, a dressing room, a dorm, or a gallery wall with Caya's cowgirl portraits and the No Crying at the Rodeo print. More in rodeo art and pink wall art.
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.
Texas Rodeo Queen
Fine Art Print by Betsy Crum
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- Signed by hand
- Archival paper
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- Standard frame sizes
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Product FAQ
What is a shit ton?
An unofficial unit of measurement. Somewhere north of a lot and well south of all of it, used when an actual number would undersell the situation. Betsy built this print out of the two things a rodeo queen and the Fourth of July have in common: stars, and a shit ton of energy. The purple and magenta stripes, the white star field, the pale pink capitals sitting straight and proud across the middle — that is the phrase rendered as a sash you can hang.
What is the history of rodeo queens?
It starts at the first Pendleton Round-Up in Oregon in 1910. Before that, rodeo queen meant a professional cowgirl who actually competed. Pendleton crowned a local seventeen-year-old, Bertha Anger, who won the title by selling the most tickets and rode the parade on a float rather than on horseback. In 1922 the reigning queen and her attendants were presented inside the arena on horseback for the first time, and the grand entrance has been part of the job ever since. By the mid-1920s rodeos across the West were crowning hometown queens.
What happened in Texas rodeo history in 1929?
1929 is the year rodeo got organized. Producers formed the Rodeo Association of America to standardize the rules, keep the judging honest, guarantee the prize money and set up a points system for naming world champions — the framework the sport still runs on today. Texas took it from there. Stamford's Texas Cowboy Reunion started in 1930, and by 1931 ranches across west Texas were sending young women to ride in the sponsor contest, judged on horsemanship and turnout both. The cloverleaf pattern they ran around the barrels is the reason barrel racing exists.
Was there an all-women's rodeo in Fort Stockton, Texas?
Yes. Fort Stockton hosted a Girls Rodeo Association cowgirl rodeo in 1949, and film of it survives in the Texas Archive of the Moving Image — women riding rough stock and running barrels in west Texas, on camera. The GRA had been founded the year before, on February 28, 1948, when thirty-eight ranch women met in a hotel in San Angelo and built the first professional sports organization in America created by women for women. It is now the Women's Professional Rodeo Association. The first all-women's rodeo in Texas came earlier still, at Bonham in 1942.
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.