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Oil Industry by Julius Woeltz
Photo CreditGSA\Keith Andreucci
Oil Industry
Photo CreditGSA\Keith Andreucci

Oil Industry

Artist
Year1941
Classification painting
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions6'6-1/2" X 18'3/4"
Credits New Deal Art Program
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
Location
  • One of six panels depicting the life and landscape of the Panhandle. Several men in work clothes working in the foreground.  On the left and center are depicted the activities surrounding a derrick in drilling for oil with a pattern of derricks in the central background.  On the right is shown a "Christmas Tree" or control valve used to regulate the flow of oil after the well has been drilled and the derrick removed.  On the extreme right are pipe-line welders with storage tanks in the background. Woeltz won a competition entered by 64 artists from the Southwest.  He was selected "for the distinction of the artist's style, for his feeling for light which might be used to advantage in painting Panhandle landscape and for his architectural quality of design".