UPDATE 4/25: Two prints sold. Now available via JimFlora.com. The Incredible Flutist is an uncirculated 1953-54 record cover illustration by Flora that was intended for a 7-inch RCA Victor EP. Jim Flora Art LLC is offering two fine art prints on eBay at a launch price. According to a purchase order discovered in the Flora archives, the illustration was commissioned by RCA in late 1953, but there’s no indication the work was finished, accepted, or…

Coulda been clad in this onesie as a littler one. Had it been available. Just a mock-up. This image (circa 1940) originally graced the top of a box designed to collect issues of Little Man Press publications.

Jim Flora‘s art has appeared on record album covers, in magazines, in children’s books, and on fine art prints. You’ll soon have more options about where to display your Flora: Jim Flora Art LLC is working with the Colorado-based Faded Line Clothing Co., who are designing a very cool line of t-shirts, hoodies, and assorted apparel featuring Flora’s mischievous and curiously sinister art. Above are proposed designs, of which there are a half-dozen others being…

Look magazine, December 27, 1955

Detail, The Big Bank Robbery, undated acrylic on board, ca. early 1960s complete work reproduced in The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora P.S. Another detail:

Detail, “Ohio,” illustration for Container Corporation of America Fortune magazine, 1947

Edition of ten, one of which is now being offered on eBay. After this print sells at the fixed price, the price will increase for the remainder of the edition, which will be offered thru JimFlora.com.

Ruth Seidler, of Brooklyn’s JollyBe Bakery: “Devils food cake with hazelnut dacquoise and chocolate/hazelnut buttercream. Design inspired by the 1960’s [sic] jazz record jacket designs of Jim Flora.”

rew Taylor “is a sucker for a nice mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich.” He’s also keen on Jim Flora, as revealed in “Knoxville Showcases Pop Art Icon,” from the March 30 issue of Vision, an arts publication of East Tennessee State University.

… at the Lake County Discovery Museum, Wauconda IL. Original paintings and drawings, fine art prints, and Flora artifacts will be displayed, along with a collection of antiquarian Little Man Press chapbooks. Barb and I will be in-house for the opening reception, Friday evening, April 4. Flora books, prints, and merch will be on sale in the LCDM gift shoppe. The exhibit runs thru August 31. To find the museum, follow the signs on Route…