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

Sunday, November 29, 2009

crimestoppers

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Great detail (extracted at the Print & Pattern blog ) from Flora's mid-1960s painting The Big Bank Robbery . We issued a limited edi...
Thursday, November 26, 2009

more anatomical spare parts

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Detail from the Lord Buckley 10" EP Hipsters, Flipsters, and Finger-Poppin' Daddies, Knock Me Your Lobes , released on RCA Victor ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

the cognitive process

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Flora explains how the brain reacts to stimuli—it's all cogs, pulleys and tiny hammers. Another (see below) illustration from the Novemb...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

phantom septet

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Illustration, Columbia Coda , November-December 1944. The pianist is ... we'll get back to you on that. The clarinetists and violinists,...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

inside the art factory

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We recently launched our third series of alphabetical Primer for Prophets screen prints (see preceding post). Minneapolis printmaker Dan I...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Primer for Prophets 3rd series

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NOW AVAILABLE : the next four works in the Primer for Prophets screen print series. Cool Flora illustrations of the American nuclear family...
Monday, November 9, 2009

Flora crosses the pond

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Nine Jim Flora illustrations, album covers, and details found their way into yesterday's UK Telegraph Sunday jazz supplement (print ed...
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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Meow! Introducing the Mambo Mini

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Our large (20" x 20") Mambo For Cats limited edition screen print is almost sold out. We're now offering a miniature (7...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

three legends

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Three jazz legends, stacked, in the July 1952 issue of Coda , Columbia 's new release monthly. From the top: Harry James (trumpet) Benn...
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Monday, November 2, 2009

Jim Flora notecards

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Back in stock : letterpress-printed cards with cool 1940s and '50s music and turntable illustrations by Flora. The cards were designed a...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

spooky doings

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Perhaps the kid dropped his bag of trick-or-treat candy (and shed his costume) sprinting for safety. Illustration from introductory chapter ...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Gene Krupa demo booklet (1941)

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Dummy pages, Gene Krupa and his Columbia recording orchestra , demo booklet, 1941, part of a series of homemade samples prepared by Flora fo...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

seaside setting

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Detail (about two-thirds of the complete work) of an untitled, unpublished tempera on board, ca. mid-1960s. The collection contains a number...
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Monday, October 12, 2009

Reptet rides again

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... this time to a distant galaxy. Or maybe just down the block to the Moon. The genre-surfing Seattle combo has once again (third time) lic...
Friday, October 9, 2009

Bessie Smith and someone like Bessie Smith

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Here are two tempera illustrations discovered in an early- to mid-1960s sketchpad in the Flora collection. The more refined of the two works...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Jim Flora 2010 calendars available

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We've received no reports of malfunctioning 2009 calendars—every day has thus far been accounted for, in the correct sequence—so we'...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Lobster Pound (1962)

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Taking a break from conjuring bonus-limbed mutants and bug-eyed boppers, Flora often sketched maritime culture in his extended backyard. The...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009

5Qs 4 Eric Reynolds

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Eric Reynolds has worked at Fantagraphics (our Flora books publisher ) for 15 years, mostly as publicist. It's been our pleasure to con...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

odyssey of a drug

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Feature illustration, "A Long-Playing Medicine" LIFE magazine, June 10, 1957
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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Love Is Like Park Avenue

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Flora rendered the above woodcut for the cover of a collection of short stories by Alvin Frederick Levin , published by Little Man Press in ...
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