Tulsa Tipsy, 2026 Tulsa Oktoberfest Collector’s Edition
Tulsa Tipsy was created from seven historical images, bringing together vintage pinup art, postcard typography, a very old photograph of Tulsa, and some rather unruly tornadoes.
The cowgirl pinup (tattoos removed) is by Archie Dickens, dating to the 1940s or ’50s. The vintage TULSA lettering comes from a 1945 Greetings from Tulsa, the Oil Capital of the World postcard, while the Greetings From typography was borrowed from a 1909 South Dakota postcard. The background photograph is of Tulsa in 1909, and those tornadoes? They came from an 1827 lithograph by Félix Achille Beaupoil Saint-Aulaire titled Waterspouts at Sea off Sicily. Because apparently even a vintage Oklahoma postcard could use a little maritime weather chaos.
We originally released 25 11×14 Collector’s Edition prints on archival matte paper and 25 16x20” framed, stretched canvas wraps exclusively for Oktoberfest.
Tulsa Tipsy is a digital art collage created with human hands utilizing these historical sources:
Cowgirl pinup by Archie Dickens. Color Illustration. 1940s-50s
Greetings from Tulsa, Oklahoma, "The Oil Capital of the World" by Oklahoma News Co.; Curt Teich. Postcard. 1945
Greetings from Bowdle, S.D. by Johnson & Bordsen. Postcard. 1909
Tulsa Flag by Jordan Michael Winn and Dakota Lee Bryant. Graphic Design. 2018
Hand-drawn wooden barrel by unknown. Illustration. Date unknown
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Commercial Streets by Clarence Jack. Panaromic Photograph; Gelatin Silver Print. 1909
Waterspouts at sea off Sicily by Félix Achille Beaupoil Saint-Aulaire. Lithograph. 1827
