Jim Flora

The mischievous and diabolic art of James Flora (1914-1998):
Glimpses of rare works from the archives
and news about Flora-related projects

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

It's a Flora World. We just live in it.

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The Flora Juggernaut appears unstoppable. Our new book, The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora , now in its 15th printing since publicatio...
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Monday, February 26, 2007

hyperkinetic hepcats

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'Tis the season to Pete Jolly! A new silk-screen print has been introduced to our growing line of iconic Jim Flora merch—the artist...
Thursday, February 22, 2007

the hazards of city life

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That's not what this work is titled. It has no title, and it's a detail from a larger, possibly unpublished pen & ink mid-1950s ...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

"a mid-century deconstructive rebel mindset"

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Artist Ward Jenkins reviews The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora at his Ward-O-Matic blog. Our friend Ward had previously posted about ...
Sunday, February 18, 2007

Flory does Ory

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Another early jazz legend revisited by Flora in his later years was New Orleans trombonist Kid Ory , composer of "Muskrat Ramble."...
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Thursday, February 15, 2007

sooted up for work

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Along with beasties , boppers and boats, trains were a perennial Flora motif . During the Great Depression he defrayed his tuition costs ...
Monday, February 12, 2007

Gene mutation

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On one of his earliest album covers for Columbia Records , Flora, with typical anatomical perversity, endowed jazz drummer Gene Krupa with ...
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Friday, February 9, 2007

government cheese

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This three-tiered illustration appeared in the January 25, 1955, issue of Look magazine , accompanying an article by Fletcher Knebel entit...
Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Fauna by Flora 1

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A Flora zoo would be a wondrous place to take your three-armed, six-eyed kids. The animals are exotic—often you can't tell what species ...
Saturday, February 3, 2007

And now a message from our sponsor ...

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Flora + cats + the mambo = a 1955 record cover that bags beaucoups bucks on eBay and nobody even cares if there's a disc inside becaus...
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Train arriving on track two

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A portion of an illustration for Park East magazine (June 1952).
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Train kept a-rollin'

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Choo-choo, woo-woo! Another small segment from a larger work (also featured in its entirety in The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora ). ...

The deviltry is in the details

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We've posted several complete Flora works below. However, one mission of this blog is to post details of Flora's complex artistic ma...
Monday, January 29, 2007

Florabeasts

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Untitled page from sketchbook (ca. 1940s, tempera and pencil)

James Joyce and His Dog (1992)

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Friday, January 26, 2007

The artist at play

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Unpublished (and likely unexhibited) artifacts from Jim Flora sketchbooks Tempera on paper, early 1960s Pen sketch, early 1940s
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