Our art and photos are tied together in one room by color. We also have a photo of a tricolor heron hanging with a color drawing of a night heron in another room. They have similar frames and matting. There are so many ways to coordinate, you just have to look for the common element or in the case of different pictures then coordinate mats and frames.

I am not sure you can put a group of photos and paintings/prints all together with no theme or connection and have it look like something other than a random selection.

You may consider a few different groupings instead of a singular grouping or if you are like me and have collected way more pictures then will ever fit on your walls, you may consider having several different collections that you display different times of the year.

All the art in each grouping should be complimentary one to another. Oil paintings are most formal and are usually reserved for living rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms. Framed prints are "cheap" copies of original art. (The cost of matting and framing aside.) Photos are normally the lowest form and informal. So I would group them by the three categories and then by subject. Photos are for me reserved for small niches in the kitchen,halls,stairways,recreation rooms and bedrooms, Framed prints depending on the subject can go anywhere. I would never mix oil paintings and framed prints in the same grouping. Oil paintings on one wall "formal subject" prints in the same room but on a different wall. Hope this helps, Bill

I think we are all working a little blind. Don't know if you have 6 or 10 or 30 pieces, what sizes they are or how many are photos and how many are prints and what the colors are. Coming up with an artistic display kind of requires knowledge of what is being displayed. Guessing this is for your livingroom. A picture of the room would help as well.

I am thinking about a display that I created a few years ago for a friend. It was all photos, but I think the idea may work for your project. This was groupings of photos of all the places they had traveled, but we used 7 frames all the same size and color, but placed some horizontally and some vertically and each frame had collages of pictures, some small, some larger, some black and white, some color. It took time to get them arranged so that they looked balanced, but it was a beautiful arrangement.

The photos in our house are not the lowest art on the art food chain. Ansel Adams, anyone?

Thanks so much for all of the comments. I am still collecting for this home (recent aquisition) but attempting to meld my style interests. Most museums do not group photography with other art forms but my home is hardly a museum! Thanks for the great suggestions!

Wondering if you are still here, @sartrehare? This is exactly my dilemma and I’d like to learn what you have learned. And Yes! Ansel Adams, here! Thank you.