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

Friday, November 9, 2012

Saturday Night In Stonington

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Lisa Hirschfield visits the soon-to-be-relocated Flora collection in Norwalk CT, October 28. Work displayed: Saturday Night In Stonington...
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Thursday, August 9, 2012

The Big Bank Robbery Jigsaw Puzzle

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NEW: the Jim Flora Big Bank Robbery wooden jigsaw puzzle by Artifact Puzzles . This 302-piece work features a mischievous and colorful 1...
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Sunday, July 22, 2012

any similarity between ...

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... is purely coincidental. Jim Flora, untitled and unpublished tempera draft, mid-1950s: The Magnetic Fields, 2012:
Friday, July 6, 2012

summer fun

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Illustration detail, "What is Automation," Collier's magazine, March 16, 1956. The optimistic take: "Automati...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

The Fourth of July

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The work isn't titled, and there's no specific reference to Independence Day, but this unpublished 1990s acrylic on canvas sugges...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

The Picasso of Jazz

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Thanks to Clayton Walter for a nice little Flora gallery at his Claytonology blog: "I think of Flora as the Picasso of Jazz; his o...
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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Bix, birthday boy (and Flora tattoo #3)

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Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke (1903-1931) Today is the 109th birthday of Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke , an American "ho...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Bix & Tram print released

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Today we launch a new limited edition fine art print of a classic mid-century Flora album cover. Bix and Tram was one of the artist's ...
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Monday, March 5, 2012

traffic snarls

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Miserable pedestrian—what part of "beep" don't you understand? Untitled, unfinished tempera on board (detail), 1950s. Purpose...
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Flora talk & rare art show Dec 17 in NYC

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untitled tempera, early 1940s Flora biographer/archivist me ( Irwin Chusid ) will present an informal talk about the artist's life, acco...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

"visual pop in an off-kilter story"

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Pamela Paul in the New York Times reviews Enchanted Lion Books ' new reprint of Flora's Kangaroo for Christmas : Kangaroo for Chri...
Monday, November 14, 2011

Flora exhibit opens in New York, November 19

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The D orian Grey Gallery will host The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora, the first posthumous New York exhibit and sale of Jim Flora o...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Jim Flora 2012 Calendars

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Those perennial favorite Jim Flora calendars are in stock for 2012. You've got your bug-eyed saxophonist, an Aren't-We-Having-Fun?...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Queztlcoatl Returns (again)

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Friend (and WFMU colleague ) Therese Mahler joined us for an archiving visit to (what we call) the "Floratorium" (Norwalk CT stor...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

Well-Fed at Last

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These two tempera with pencil illustrations, differently titled yet seemingly related, were discovered in a mid-1960s Flora sketchpad pages ...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

puzzle pony

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Untitled, undated, unsigned woodcut print from Flora's Little Man Press days (1939-1942). The original block cannot be located, and we h...
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Sunday, October 9, 2011

electromechanical design

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Spot illustration, promotional brochure for trade journal Electromechanical Design: Components and Systems , 1957. Flora illustrated a numbe...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

political patrons

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Commercial spot illustration, ca. 1960, magazine and article unknown. The theme is obvious: agriculture, broadcasting, and oil moguls attemp...
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Monday, October 3, 2011

Little Man Press, Summer 1939

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Another rare (and previously unseen) print acquired from a recent estate sale in Cincinnati. As with all prints from Flora's productive ...
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Friday, September 30, 2011

rush hour

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Commercial spot illustration, 1961, magazine and subject unknown. Pen & ink, watercolor and Liquid Paper on artist board with printer...
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