Cowboy Art | Cash | Caya Crum

The only one of them who won't look at you.

Crum Art

Cash smoking cowboy desert western print by Caya Crum in a gold frame
$50.00
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Cash — a Cowboy in Profile by Caya Crum

Every other cowboy Caya has painted looks you right in the eye. Cash doesn't. He's turned to the side, chin up, smoke drifting off toward the edge of the picture — pale pink hat, red bandana, gold shirt, and behind him a blue sky with one long pink cloud sitting over the water.

It changes what the painting is about. You stop reading his face and start wondering what he's looking at. He's the calm one, and the only one of them with water behind him.

Where He'll Work in Your House

Because he faces off the edge of the frame, he's lovely at one end of a gallery wall — he points your eye back into the rest of it. On his own over a sofa or a console, the sky does the work and the room gets softer instead of louder. If you've wanted western without it taking over the living room, he's the one, and he keeps good company with the Texas sky wall art.

Questions

Why is he sideways? He's the odd one out on purpose. Caya painted the rest head-on and gave Cash the horizon instead.

What's the water behind him? Flat blue with a scatter of darker dots — call it a lake, a stock tank, or the Gulf. She left it open.

What colors does he live with? Gold, coral, pale pink and a lot of sky blue. He's the easiest of them to put in a warm, neutral room.

Who made it? Cash is Caya Crum's, painted here in Texas. Nothing of hers sits in a stack waiting — he's printed to order once somebody claims him. Everything else she's painted is here.

He's the one who'll let you look past him at the weather, which is a rare thing in this crew. The rest of them are in cowboy art prints and the wider western art shelf, he's been photographed over a dinner table more than once for the dining room, and he's part of the Round Top collection if that's where you first ran across him.

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.

Crum Art brings a distinct Texas and Western point of view to specific, meaningful images: pop art color, cowboys, cowgirls, animals, kittens, vintage signs, bluebonnets, humor, grit, and Lone Star nostalgia.

These are not mass-produced prints or generic wall decor. They are artist-made pieces with a Texas point of view, created for homes that feel collected, lived-in, and full of meaning.

Each print is produced to gallery-quality fine art standards, made to order in our Fort Worth studio, carefully inspected, and hand-signed by the artist. Every piece passes through our hands before it becomes part of your home.

Print Details

  • 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What sizes does this print come in?

Our fine art prints are available in multiple sizes including 8x10 unframed matted to 11x14, 11x14 unframed, 16x20, 18x24, and 24x36. Each size ships ready to frame, making it easy to find the right fit for your wall.

Is this print good for a western or ranch-style living room?

Absolutely. Crum Art prints work beautifully in western living rooms, ranch house walls, and collected interiors. The editorial quality and distinct Texas point of view make them strong anchor pieces for a rustic western or Lone Star-inspired home.

How is this print made and what materials are used?

Every Crum Art print is produced on 100% cotton rag paper using archival pigment inks — the same standard used in fine art galleries. Built to last without fading, and hand-signed by the artist before it leaves our Fort Worth studio.

Can this print be part of a gallery wall?

Yes — many Crum Art prints are part of series and are designed to group together as a statement western gallery wall, or hang individually as a standalone piece. Each image is sized to fit standard frames for easy styling.

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.

Made with love. Signed by hand. Shipped with care. Hung with joy.

Product FAQ

Which way is Cash facing?

To one side, in profile, chin lifted, with the smoke drifting off past the edge of the canvas. He is the only cowboy in Caya Crum's series who does not meet your eye, and the whole painting turns on it. Instead of reading his expression you end up following his line of sight out of the frame.

What is Cash wearing?

A pale pink hat, a red bandana at the throat, and a gold shirt. The pink hat is the detail nobody catches from across a room and everybody grins at up close.

What is behind him?

Blue sky with one long pink cloud lying across it, and water underneath, painted flat blue with a scatter of darker marks in it. He is the only cowboy in the series with water in the picture. Whether it is a lake, a stock tank or the Gulf is left up to you.

What room does Cash suit?

Rooms where you want western in the mix without it running the place. He sits well over a sofa, a console or a dining sideboard, and because his gaze leads off to one side he makes a natural bookend at either end of a gallery wall.