Month: February 2018

Decorating with Black and White Framed Artwork

Black and white artwork is a superb choice for a wide range of rooms and decors. Whether you choose photographs or line art, monochrome artwork is elegant and crisp. Best of all, our artwork collection can be easily custom-finished. Whether you prefer a wrapped canvas or a framed traditional print, we offer a wide range of options.

Custom Finished Black and White Art Fits Any Decor

We make it easy! Some black and white artwork is best presented in a simple yet elegant black frame, while other pieces benefit from a silver frame. The FramedArt.com online customizer allows you to mix and match frames and mattes until you find the perfect combination.

Black and White Sports Photography

Babe Ruth The Sultan of Swat by Bettmann-Corbis

The FramedArt.com Black and White Sports Photography galleries host an extensive collection of B&W photos. We’re honored to host the world’s greatest sports stars from days past. The wide range of sports activities includes baseball, football, boxing, cycling, and bowling. If your walls are screaming for some retro cool, black and white sports photos are a sure bet. Stars include Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, and Muhammad Ali.

Framed Chalkboard Art = Terrific Typography!

Buoyed by a plethora of topics and styles, chalk art is one of the hottest home decorating trends right now, and FramedArt.com hosts the Internet’s leading selection of Chalkboard Artwork. Our growing collection includes a wide range of chalk art subjects. A vast number of entries represent the ever-popular kitchen and bathroom categories. You’ll also find farmstead and inspirational chalk art, along with Christmas-specific and Holiday themed entries. Coffee, happy hour, and beach chalk art round out our expanding collection.

Chalk Art Categories by Room

Kitchen Chalkboard Art 

The kitchen is an ideal room to decorate with chalkboard art, with a gigantic range of relevant categories. Produce, cheese and coffee are favorites, along with an endless selection of libations. If you’re on a fruit and veggie kick, you’re bound to love the ripe vine heirloom tomatoes, red patch wild strawberries, extra fancy string beans, and bunches of crisp, sweet carrots. Looking for a tall piece of typographic elegance to fill the spot next to the fridge? Veruca Salt’s monochrome Pasta compositions are sure to inspire your appetite. Pela Studio’s Mom’s Kitchen brings it all home with today’s special: take it or leave it!

Delightful Dog Artwork – Part I

With well over five thousand pieces of dog artwork in our collection, man’s best friend has inspired one of the largest collections here at FramedArt.com. While you might think that the enormous selection would make finding the perfect dog art a daunting task. we’ve organized our collection of canine art into sections not just based on breed, but by the artist, as well. The following visual list of dog-loving artists makes it easy to browse the galleries by the artist’s name and style.

We Love Custom Framed Dog Art!

The sheer size of our canine collection inspired us to carve the list of pup-tastic artists into a handful of easily digestible chunks. We’ll kick things off with ten of our favorites, with complementary frames and mats.

Dean Russo

Dog Is Love by Dean Russo with custom mat and frame

Brooklyn born and raised, Dean Russo attended both the prestigious School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute. His instantly-identifiable bright neon-colored dog portraits have taken the canine artwork world by storm. While Dean’s perhaps best known for his expressive Pit Bulls, his extensive catalog of work immortalizes a vast array of breeds.

James Dean – Dream as if You’ll Live Forever. Live as if You’ll Die Today.

James Byron Dean was born on February 8th, 1931 in Marion, Indiana. Although Dean’s life spanned a mere twenty-four years, his impact on American culture is monumental. He left this world on September 30, 1955, when his Porsche Spyder collided with a Ford Tudor sedan in Cholame, California, roughly halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco in a tragic car accident.

The FramedArt.com galleries contain many pieces of custom framed James Dean artwork, including movie posters, photographs, and tribute paintings.

James Dean Movie Posters

While his career spanned just three motion pictures, James Dean’s legacy will live forever.

East of Eden poster

East of Eden was the only movie to be released prior to James Dean’s untimely death. The film was based on the acclaimed John Steinbeck novel and directed by Elia Kazan. Dean earned a Best Actor nomination for East of Eden, while Kazan was nominated for Best Direction. The film nabbed a Golden Globe award for Best Picture. Jo Van Fleet earned an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, as well.