Samsung Frame TV Art for Christmas: Cozy Vintage Sets for Winter, Plus an Easy Gift


 

If you own a Samsung Frame TV, or you're about to give one, the season changes what you want on the wall. Bright summer gardens start to feel out of place in December. What looks right is warm and low-lit: a camp fire under the pines, dark Dutch flowers, a stream in a shadowed wood. Here is how we would set up Frame TV art for the Christmas season, what to buy if you want it done in five minutes, and how to give Frame TV art as a gift.

Our pick: the Complete Frame TV Art Collection ($15). It has all 54 images from our Frame TV sets, sorted into folders by theme, so you can rotate from autumn through winter and into spring without buying anything else. If you only want one mood for the holidays, the Forest Landscape set ($6) is the one we'd choose.

A quick note on names: “Frame TV” describes the screen format. Wood Between Studio is an independent studio and isn't connected with Samsung or any TV brand. Our files are plain 3840 x 2160 JPGs, so they also work on any 16:9 TV that can show your own photos, and on most digital picture frames.

What makes Frame TV art look right in winter

The Frame looks most like a real painting when the picture suits the light in the room. Winter evenings are dark early and lit by lamps, so the art that works best has a few things in common:

  • Deep, warm grounds. Browns, golds and near-blacks read as paint on canvas. Pale, high-key images can look like a screen in a dim room.
  • Calm subjects. Woods, water, flowers in a vase. Nothing busy, nothing that asks to be looked at every time you walk past.
  • Nothing stretched. Paintings that aren't the shape of a TV should sit on a matte, not be stretched or cropped awkwardly. All of our portrait-shaped works come already centred on a matte toned from the painting itself.
  • A few images, rotated. Eight to ten images on a slow shuffle keeps the wall fresh without feeling like a slideshow.

The best Frame TV art sets for the Christmas season

None of these are Christmas pictures in the card-shop sense. They're old paintings and prints that feel right from Thanksgiving to New Year's: warm, quiet, a little dark. Every image is a public-domain work from a museum open-access collection that we cleaned up and laid out for a TV.

Forest Landscape Frame TV Art, set of 9Forest Landscape Frame TV Art, set of 9 · $6
Nine woodland and wilderness paintings: Winslow Homer's Camp Fire and The North Woods, a Ruisdael stream, Rousseau's Fontainebleau, Bierstadt's mountains and Tait's On Point.
See it on Payhip →
Moody Floral Frame TV Art, set of 10Moody Floral Frame TV Art, set of 10 · $6
Ten images of Dutch and Flemish flower pieces on deep, dark grounds, with full-screen details and two side-by-side pairs. Rich colour for a dark wall and low lamplight.
See it on Payhip →
Autumn Frame TV Art, set of 10Autumn Frame TV Art, set of 10 · $6
A ten-image seasonal selection for November: the camp fire, a setter in autumn grass, forest pools, Fantin-Latour roses and Hokusai's red Fuji. Every image also appears in our other sets, so skip this one if you buy the bundle.
See it on Payhip →
Fantin-Latour Frame TV Art, set of 9Fantin-Latour Frame TV Art, set of 9 · $6
Nine images of Henri Fantin-Latour's roses and pansies, each with a full-screen detail. Soft, muted and painterly, and a good choice for a dining room through the holidays.
See it on Payhip →
Complete Frame TV Art Collection, 54 imagesComplete Frame TV Art Collection, 54 images · $15
All 54 images in one download, including four Hollar moth etchings and two Hokusai views of Mount Fuji that are only in the bundle.
See it on Payhip →

Want actual Christmas paintings on the TV?

Our download sets don't include Christmas scenes. For December itself, we made a free video instead: an hour and a half of classical Christmas music with old-master paintings, including Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow, Dutch skating scenes and Monet's The Magpie. Put it on during a Christmas dinner or while you trim the tree, then switch back to Art Mode when the evening is over. It's on our YouTube channel: Classical Christmas Music with Classic Christmas Paintings.

How to add your own art to a Frame TV

It takes about five minutes the first time:

  1. Download the ZIP on your phone or computer and unzip it.
  2. Open the SmartThings app on your phone, choose the TV, go to Art Mode and add photos from your phone. Or copy the JPGs to a USB stick and plug it into the TV.
  3. Set the TV's own matte to “none”. Our images already include their mattes where a painting needs one.
  4. Pick a shuffle interval. We like one change every few hours, so the wall shifts with the day.

Samsung also sells an Art Store subscription inside the TV. That's a fine option if you want a large rotating library. Buying a set outright suits people who want a small, chosen group of images that are theirs to keep, with no monthly bill.

Frame TV art as a Christmas gift

If someone in the family is getting a Frame TV this year, a set of art to go with it is a thoughtful extra that costs very little and arrives instantly. A few practical ways to give a digital download:

  • Buy it and forward the download. Payhip emails a download link after purchase. Copy the ZIP to a small USB stick and wrap that, with a card that says what's on it.
  • Load it for them. If you'll be there on Christmas Day, set the art up on their TV yourself. It's the kind of small job most people never get around to.
  • Match the room. Forest landscapes for a cabin or a den, moody florals for a dark dining room, Fantin-Latour for a lighter living room. When in doubt, the bundle covers every room.

One thing to keep in mind: the files are licensed for personal use. Giving a set you bought to one household is the spirit of a gift; please don't post or share the files publicly.

Our suggested winter rotation

If you buy the bundle, here's a simple way to run it through the season. Through Thanksgiving, use the Autumn folder selection: the camp fire, the setter, the chrysanthemums. From December, switch to the Forest Landscapes and Moody Florals folders on a shuffle. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, play the Christmas music video for the evening. In January, when the house wants to feel lighter, move to the Botanical Studies and Japanese Birds.

You don't need a plan this detailed, of course. But a wall that changes with the season is half the pleasure of owning a Frame TV, and it's easy once the files are on the TV.

More ideas for the TV: our art slideshows on YouTube, including Forest Landscape Paintings for TV and Vintage Floral Art for Your TV, play well when you want the paintings to move with music.

Wood Between Studio makes planners, log books and vintage art prints with clean layouts and room to write. Free printable pages: 2027 Planner Sampler · Videos: YouTube · Posters and notebooks: Zazzle

Make room for what matters.
— Wood Between Studio

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