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South Plains Fair Sign — Lubbock Art by Betsy Crum
The red FAIR marquee rides its tower against a wide pale-mint sky, star up top, clouds keeping a polite distance — the sign generations of West Texans have steered by every fall. Betsy gives it the same treatment as her Allsup's: one beloved sign, a mile of sky, and nothing to distract from what it means.
If you grew up on the South Plains, that word doesn't say fair. It says corn dogs, livestock barns, and the year's best week.
Where It'll Work in Your House
It's West Texas roadside art for a kitchen, a den, or an entryway, and it hangs beautifully with the Allsup's print as a Lubbock-highway pair. Give it plenty of wall — the sky does most of the work here, same as everything else in our Texas sky wall art. A homesick gift that works on anyone who ever showed a lamb or won a goldfish out there.
Betsy Crum, working in Texas. Original family artwork, printed to order — more of Betsy's signs here.
The midway keeps going in our carnival art, where the ferris wheels and the ticket booths live — and there's a whole care package waiting in homesick Texan gifts for whoever's been gone longest.
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.
South Plains Fair Print
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
When does the South Plains Fair run?
Late September into early October in Lubbock — fair week, the unofficial fifth season of the South Plains calendar.
What room suits the pale palette?
Kitchens, dens, and hallways — the soft mint sky keeps it calm while the red marquee keeps it fun.
What's the Lubbock wall lineup?
This sign, the Allsup's, and anything with a big West Texas sky — a roadside trio that smells faintly of corn dogs in the best way.
Who gets this as a gift?
Texas Tech grads, fair kids, and everyone who ever won a goldfish on that midway and kept it alive out of spite.
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.