Kitchen Art | Schepps Milk Amphora | Betsy Crum

The Greeks put their heroes on pottery. Dallas put its milk.

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Schepps Milk Amphora — kitchen art print by Betsy Crum in a carved wood frame

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Schepps Milk Amphora — Vintage Kitchen Art by Betsy Crum

Here is a proper Greek amphora, scroll handles and all, painted in warm terracotta browns against a soft peach ground — and across its belly, right where you'd expect Achilles, the word schepps in white bubbly script. Schepps was the old Dallas dairy, the name on the milk in a whole lot of Texas kitchens and lunchrooms. Betsy has promoted it to antiquity, right alongside the rest of our Texas-style Greco Roman art.

Look closer and the joke keeps paying. White daisies and little asterisk blooms drift across the vase like they wandered off a milk label, and around the upper band — the stretch Greek potters saved for chariot races — a frieze of tiny white cows and horses runs a victory lap. That's the tell. This urn was never holding wine.

Where It'll Work in Your House

It's a vertical, so it loves the spots most art can't use: the wall by the coffee maker, the breakfast nook, the slice of plaster between two windows. It anchors a run of kitchen wall art without shouting, holds its own over a dining room sideboard, and in a gallery wall it plays the dignified one — until somebody gets close enough to read it.

Betsy Crum, painting in Texas — original family artwork, printed to order. More of Betsy's work hangs here.

If the Greeks had had Texas milk, this is the museum wing where they'd have kept it. Hang it near its sibling — the tiger amphora trio came out of the same imaginary excavation — or let it hold court over pantry classics like the Ranch Style Beans print. It's also a sneaky-good pick among Texas gifts for anybody who remembers the brand.

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 Schepps?

Schepps was an old Dallas dairy — the name on the milk in plenty of Texas kitchens and school lunchrooms. In this print, its bubbly white script gets the ancient-artifact treatment it never knew it deserved.

Why does milk deserve a Greek urn?

The Greeks reserved amphorae for what they valued most, and any Texan can make the case that milk qualifies. If you doubt this vase's true purpose, check the frieze around the top — those aren't warriors or chariots, they're tiny white dairy cows and horses on the run.

Where should the Schepps amphora hang?

The kitchen, first and always — near the coffee maker or over the breakfast table, where milk has standing business. It's a vertical, so it also earns its keep on the narrow wall between cabinets or windows that nothing else fits.

Who is the Schepps amphora print a good gift for?

Anyone who grew up in Dallas or poured Schepps at a Texas lunch table, and anyone who collects kitchen art with a sense of humor. It manages to say home and art history in the same breath.

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.