Sunday, February 22, 2009

clowneries

pen & ink with pencil outline, detail, sketchbook,
ca. 1950-51,
when Flora was living in Mexico

Here's an undated forebear:

Distant relative, from a 1948 Columbia Records ad
(fully reproduced in
The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora)

3 comments:

Ernie said...

I think if I were a clown, I'd get myself a hat with a bird in it. That's better than those disco shoes with goldfish in the heels!

Anonymous said...

So cool. I love to see transitions like these and...wait...is he playing a saxophone out of his ear?!!
Ha! Just another example of why Flora was the BEST.

Anonymous said...

Is the clown @ the top wearing sandals?