Petroleum & Energy Related Ads

Deane’s many clients included petroleum and energy companies such as DX, Phillips 66, Citgo, and The Williams Company.

DX was a division of Sun Oil Company which was headquartered in Tulsa, OK with the brand retiring in late 1980s. The birthplace of Phillips petroleum was Bartlesville, OK; Citgo was founded in Bartlesville, Ok, and The Williams Companies, Inc., an American energy company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, provided infrastructure that safely delivered natural gas products to reliably fuel the clean energy economy.

In time, I believe the latter three companies moved their operations to Houston.

I took the liberty of tinting some art that was on stark white paper.

Phillips 66 Salesmaker ad – March 1971

“With each 25 cases purchased of qualifying Phillips 66 automotive chemicals … receive one free Van Heusen shirt order form. These beautiful dress shirts come in a wide assortment of bold, bright and lively “Firebright” solid colors or “Century Streamlined” stripes.”

1974 Phillips 66 Christmas issue

pg 28

jobber unknown

This could be from the 1980s, but it seems to fit here. Gina has this. On canvas.

March 1977 Phillips catalog

for Lubricants/TBA // Service equipment //

Selling aids/ Uniforms // Credit card Directory

Below, from Phillips magazine Shield, First Quarter 1977; pgs 30 – 31, 32 – 33. The artwork, an abstract, is unique. Deane didn’t paint abstracts. This is signed. I have yet to call the Phillips Museum to ask if the painting is on display or in storage somewhere. The article muses over how petroleum is used 100 years from 1977. The words on the right side of the first image reads, “The year is 2077. Here’s what is happening: The world’s population has passed the 10 billion mark. Life in general is more leisurely than a century ago, less hectic, more synthetic and certainly more computerized.”

Below, February 1978 4-page brochure featuring signboards for sale plus other promotions from the Advertising & Merchandising Section.

This image is for a travel map. In early 2026 I purchased five off eBay. They are maps for Kansas and Nebraska. Below gives a close up of the credit card. This is how we know it is definitely Deane’s work.

1979 Used travel map. Is this giving off Ingraham-style vibes? His mother Doris had it in her effects.

They could be many more travel maps, but we just know for sure if he actually did the art.

I don’t know which company this gentleman belongs to! The image is from a slide dated 1982.

Phillips Petroleum Company ads – spanning three decades, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s.

Around the time Deane made the art for the above Truckload Tire Sale ad, he was commissioned by OTASCO to make art for their Employee Benefits Program booklet, 1972. Oklahoma Tire and Supply Company boasted “hundreds of stores covering 13 states” by 1968. I don’t know how many stores Tulsa had at their peak but there was one on Brookside. The Ingrahams lived in a neighborhood to the north. Jill remembers buying bicycle tire tubes and soccer cleats. What did you buy at your local OTASCO? There are two left in Oklahoma.

Somewhere around 1988 Deane begins a long collaboration with Citgo.

Below, artwork adorning front covers of various Citgo folders. Around 1991.

A few more ads for Citgo: ESPN, Benefits HelpLine, and art from a RFG (reformulated gasoline) pamphlet.

Deane was hired to make portraits for Citgo personnel. I don’t know how many he painted. Two prints of those portraits were found. Kenyon had a portrait made in the same style; he was possibly being used as a ‘test portrait.’ You can view Kenyon’s portrait in the Eighties/Nineties Gallery under Family. The other collages were tributes to longtime employees, dated 1999.

Artwork for other petroleum/energy-related companies.

Reading and Bates Construction Co. had a long history in Tulsa. They helped build the top half of the Mid-Continent Building and occupied a few of the upper floors. They moved to Houston in 1989 and operate now as land and marine pipeline construction.

EXAM, after 1975. The person in the first image looks like Deane’s best friend Orren Sahlman. They worked together at Crawford, Hill, and Assoc. For another image of Orren, see the last watercolor picture under The Seventies.

The artwork for Western Supply Company is colorful and full size. No date discernible, but possibly from the 1970’s.

The image comparison below comes out of the Western Supply Co. booklet. Slide the screen to the right to bring up the red ‘quality fabrication’ half-size insert. Move the screen all the way to the left to view the full page.

Western Supply Company provided heat exchanger needs to refineries such as the National Cooperative Refinery Association refinery of McPherson, KS. I’m not sure if they are still in business.

Below, beautiful plastic-coated folder that opens up to 30.5 inches!

Below, images from a Price Pipe Coating Services pocket folder, about 1977.

Below, “What’s Your Most Unusual Christmas Story?” art from Williams Weekly December 21, 1987 (The Williams company)

Another Christmas art for Williams. Notice Deane is bending over to pick up the baby. 1994

The art below is from an unknown Williams Company magazine, pg 24, titled “Never Been in Anything Like It”.

This image is from an unknown page from a Williams Natural Gas magazine. It references “…a series of deep-freeze days in late December and early January 1988 heated up activity at WNG’s Tulsa headquarter and along the 9,700-mile system through Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. While other folks huddled by the hearth, WNG employees packed the pipeline with natural gas to fuel furnaces.”