From births to weddings, and other special recognitions.

Anne

Jill

The page folded up. Here is the front.

Kirk’s is missing (but Gina confirmed it was a woodblock). Kay’s is also woodblock.

Deane didn’t make one for Gina, and when she pointed it out, he made up for it with birthday cards.

Kay’s daughter got a special recognition.

The daughters got married.

Anne & Larry, 1987

Jill & Brian, 1987

Kay & David, 1995

Gina & David, 1998

Deane recreated an 1888 wedding scene of his grandparents. He would’ve been in Tulsa by the time he made this, 1958. The back of the frame was not written by Deane because of the way he is identified (Deane was not a junior, his middle name is William and his father’s middle name is Martin). “Wedding of Ida M. Gillett & William Smyth Durnin. 1888. Drawn by Deane M. Ingraham Jr. in 1958. (Grandson) Property of Rebecca M. Durnin Nilson & Doris Durnin Ingraham.”

Going back to birthdays… From Deane to his Aunt Zella, 1952 during his stint with the army.

From Deane and Louise to Deane’s mother, ~1960

Again, to his mother, 1988

We think this might be for his father. They had a cabin and he enjoyed fishing.

Deane got birthday cards from his co-workers. This one apparently happened after he got into a bicycle accident. All drawn by Burt

1981 – 1986

This valentine drawing was included in a letter to his mother.

The Ingraham motto. I am still trying to locate a clearer image.

Book labels

A special label! It looks like he could’ve made this post-high school.

Here is some Christmas-related art.

First up, our cousin Wendy may have posed for this one.

The boy looking up at the reindeer is Deane’s grandson, Kenyon.

Christmas cards for clients.

The inside has the following written by Livingston.

Christmas cards to Grandmother Doris, Deane’s mother. The first one, 1965 or 1966.

Cover

Inside

Another grandchild was added to this card.

Other Christmas related art. You can probably pick out Deane in two of these (Dickens and Christmases Remembered). Deane’s daughter and wife modeled for the A Christmas Memory ad. Last in the slideshow is the Christmas angel Deane carved that all the children cherished. It has since been repainted and now has a home with Kay.

First up is Zella’s cat.

Deane was commissioned by Ackerman, Hood, and McQueen Advertising Agency in 1987 to design a poster for the 1988 Brunswick Men’s Winter Tour Rhino Safari.

A tube was discovered but the contents would not come out. So, with the help of scissors, seven posters were removed. They were stuck together in the bottom left.

We did a bit of DIY restoration! Using a handheld steamer, we got the posters unstuck, although not completely! After deciding which poster will give a good image, another poster that had a better image of the pink tour date list was cut with an Exacto knife. Other posters were used to cover up imperfections (you can see this in the monkey slide).

After pieces were taped, I took digital images, uploaded the images to my computer, and used the design tools to ‘soften’ the edges.

If you move the screen to the right, you can see the other poster peeking out below the top one. I decided to leave it the way it is. You will also notice I attempted to clean up the bottom left corner. I accidentally covered over the printing date AND there is more printing above it!

Can you see the pictogram? I believe it is a Brunswick logo. I don’t believe Deane designed this. The clean version came from a 1988 Brunswick catalog found online. It is noticeably different from the poster version.

A closeup view of the tour dates. You can find out about the winners here. You’ll see a few more dates added. This poster is only showing tours January 2 – April 30. Maybe there is a second poster for the second half of the year?

Follow the trail across America.

An image of the poster can be found under ‘Food & Entertainment’ in the catalogue.

This is an exciting find! From clues I gleaned from the newspaper photograph/blurb in the previous post “1961 Zebco catalog cover”, I researched and found the Greater Tulsa magazine (thanks to Jennifer at Tulsa City County Library). And not only that, there was a big write up on p. 28 on Deane.

Therefore, Deane was an “import.” One thing I did not know was he spent a very short time working at a studio in California before coming to Tulsa.

This is the cover of a Zebco catalog from 1961. Can you find his signature?

Did you know ZEBCO is an acronym for something not even closely related to fishing?

“Since its incorporation in 1932, the Zero Hour Bomb Company had become well known for manufacturing dependable electric timer bombs for fracturing geologic formations. It had designed and patented technologies for shooting wells to increase oil and natural gas production. . . post World War II demand for its electrically triggered devices had declined. ” The “cannot backlash” reel was invented by R.D. Hull to help administer these timer bombs down wells but also made an excellent fishing reel.

View more Zebco art in Food & Entertainment.

I will date this painting closer to 1980. Mom still has her dark hair. Do you see the lion statue? Kirk still has it on the front porch! When the photo was taken of the painting (possibly around 2003), the painting was stored upstairs which makes me wonder if he never liked it that much. I don’t ever recall it being on any wall downstairs. This photograph was a happy find because the image didn’t make it into the photobooks!

Deane, Self-portrait about 1970 – 1971

The exact date is uncertain but we know he started growing a mustache at around 1969. It first hung on a wooden privacy screen in my parent’s bedroom for many years, then came out and was hung above the floor furnace. It replaced the location of Anne, nude (!) I really hope to find an image of that one!

You can imagine that Deane’s portrait was just low enough to attract sticky fingers and pencil marks. And just three weeks before I got this from Kelsey to restore, it managed to attract a red marker (you can see that by scrolling all the way down)! Jill took a deep breath and painted over the white and the solid colors in Summer 2021 (this is twenty-one years after Deane’s death). It came out pretty good. Maybe because it is not varnished!! Will it need another restoration in fifty years? Well, I won’t be around to do it!

But now, since the old frame was not very usable, I bought the first frame that would work – a large, returned frame with scrollwork that was discounted by almost 90%. I got it for $41 from Hobby Lobby so I thought that was a steal! The frame is not an exact fit, about 3″ too wide and 1 1/4″ too tall. So I glued the original painting to a thin hardboard using Liquid Nails; this also helped the painting from bowing!

This was one of the first pictures I put up on the blog. I am putting it up again because I discovered something about it whereby I can date the painting!

In mid-April, Jill heard from a user in North Carolina. He stated he was looking up a painting’s origin. He really enjoys it. His wife’s parents are/were amateur artists in Tulsa; they bought it (sometime around 1960) and brought it to Florida. JS and his wife have it now and live in North Carolina.

Thank you, J & L S. I wish I could give the backstory on this painting! I don’t know who the model is. Looking closer, I see a car in the background and the girl is holding a dog or a teddy bear. Deane’s signature is vertical on the rock at the right.

The family was pleased Mr. S. sent in this story! I hope to hear from more!

The painting can be viewed in a photograph in its original shape in Gallery-Early Paintings.

Kay submitted a print of Anne and Kenyon (left). She thought her copy looked a little different. What do you think? The color is certainly off. You can see this image in Gallery-Eighties & Nineties > Family.

Deane and Louise married May 28, 1959.

Correction! I have found two other pieces where Deane signed his work “di”.