Gallery
Painting items in Gallery show the artwork they stand for, and a selector lets players pick any painting variant from a single menu.
What it does
Each painting item receives an icon texture that matches the painting it represents, so variants can be told apart in an inventory. Holding a painting item and right-clicking opens a searchable screen that lists every painting variant, and the chosen one is applied to the item. Placed paintings can be broken with Shears or Silk Touch to return them as individual items, one per variant.
Gallery requires Blueprint. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. Its files target Forge and NeoForge, with builds for 1.20.1 and 1.21.1, under a custom license that is not open source. The Tricky Trials painting variants have also been backported to 1.20.1.
Key features
Painting icon textures
Painting items display an icon that depicts the artwork of the variant they represent.
Variant selector screen
Right-clicking while holding a painting item opens a GUI where variants can be searched and chosen.
Collectible paintings
Breaking a placed painting with a tool that has a special harvesting effect returns that variant as a separate item.
Tricky Trials variants
Painting variants from the Tricky Trials update are available on 1.20.1 as well as 1.21.1.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Building galleries
Builders who fill halls or museums can browse and place many variants without crafting each one by hand.
Collecting variants
Players who want a set of paintings can break placed ones to keep each variant as an item.
Who it’s for: Builders and players who decorate with paintings on Forge or NeoForge for 1.20.1 or 1.21.1, and server owners who want the selector available to all players.
How it compares
Gallery is a Forge and NeoForge mod for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 with a custom license, and it is not open source. MC style paintings is also Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 and runs on client and server, but is under All rights reserved. Easel Does It! covers the same versions and loaders as Gallery, with All rights reserved and not open source, so it is the closest match in scope. Cycle Paintings is server-side only and spans Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, so players do not need it installed.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gallery | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-05-28 |
| MC style paintings | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-05-15 |
| Easel Does It! | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-03-30 |
| Cycle Paintings | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.16.5 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-10-02 |
Questions
Does Gallery require Blueprint?
Does Gallery have to be installed on the server?
Which game versions have Gallery files?
Can a placed painting be kept as an item?
In the catalog
Gallery is one of 8,016 Management mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,698 Management mods for Forge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/gallery
- Owner
- Team Abnormals
- Published
- 2025-01-06
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-05-28
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15