Deane came to Tulsa OK in January, 1958 to work for Paul Locke Adv. as a Commercial Illustrator. He went on to work for Hinkle, Crawford, & Fleming Art Studio of Tulsa and then Graphic Associates. In 1987 he became a Freelance Illustrator. Below are some very early work.
Zebco was one Deane’s first clients. He illustrated for them all the way into the 90s. The newspaper clipping is from The Idaho Statesman published on Sunday, July 10, 1960. So, Deane would have been twenty-eight (in December 1959) or possibly younger when he initially illustrated it. Read more about this story here.
Below is an image of his workspace taken from a slide from 1959.
In addition to the Zebco Christmas card are two Zebco fishing equipment ads. I can’t make out what is far upper left and what the ad is in the middle. The ad between the two Zebco ads is for Oklahoma Natural Gas Company (Only a Blue Star home gives you all the plus values). On the left side of the board is a brochure advertising Camp Takatoka. This overnight camp “has been in session every summer since 1913, bringing kids from all over the region to the shores of Lake Fort Gibson, just 45 minutes from Tulsa, and situated on 410 acres of beautiful land with diverse geography including lakefront, grass plains, rolling hills and forest.”
I found Blue Star Home ads in Tulsa World dating between September 1959 – September 1960 with art that could possibly be attributed to Deane, especially the ones with people in the ad.
I found the Blue Star ad that is on his studio board. It is in a Shawnee News-Star paper, March 24, 1960.
June 15, 1960 Tribune
This photo caption talks about Deane and his winning ad for National Bank of Tulsa (but he’s not in the photo!). It mentions it was in the Tulsa newspapers. After doing research, I decided to make a blogpost of my discovery. Read about it here.
Deane had the above images on slides. Maybe they are attributed to him or someone who worked at Locke Advertising? KTUL is a television station in Tulsa, OK. Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue and Van Williams. Enlarge the screen and you can see it is a man with a gun on the run!
I found two ads related to KTUL-TV’s Treasure Rush. It’s not likely Deane had a part of this. I’m just showing it as a curious bit of Tulsa history.
The following was lifted from a post highlighting the career of a popular KTUL-TV personality.
“(from Guestbook 181) Randall White said:
I haven’t stumbled through the full site, but was remembering the Treasure Hunt that KTUL did at one point in the late ’50s or early ’60s. It had people crawling all over Lookout Mountain with shovels. I remember that a guest celebrity that day was Nick Adams (TV’s Johnny Yuma in “The Rebel”). I was star struck.”
The slideshow above, The Story of Home Federal Savings & Loan Assoc of Tulsa – celebrating 50 years. Below, I found images from the Tulsa World January 1970 through June 1970-all art done in the same style of the Home Federal story, therefore possibly attributed to Deane.
In the set below for DX Promotion Booklet, 1963, notice the photograph of Deane and the man in the first image. He was often his own model. The lower right block was intentionally left blank.
Citation booklet, 1967
Below, First National Bank & Trust Co. of Tulsa folder. You can tell by the discoloration of the third panel on the right the cover was deliberately shortened.
Below, Accent Nine – A Tulsa World article mentions Accent Nine was organized in Tulsa to market a new line of cosmentics.
The above is a very large poster that folds up. It was difficult to stitch together, but I think you get the gist. I found evidence via newspapers.com they were selling at local DX stations in 1964 and 1965.
This image and the one above are from the 1963 National Bank of Tulsa Annual Report booklet.
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