Filed Under: "1950s"

7″ EP, 1954 (probably not released on LP)

Cover detail, Morton Downey Sings Songs You Love (Camden CAE 245), 1954

Jim Flora Art LLC has produced a limited-edition, archival-quality fine art print of a 1954 Jim Flora hand-tinted woodcut entitled Manhattan. The cityscape depicts New York in its 1950s glory, including a number of gotham landmarks such as the Empire State Building, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Madison Square Garden, the Statue of Liberty, famous theaters and legendary musical bistros, Washington Square arch, subways, taxis, horse-drawn carriages and tourists. Only twenty-five (25) prints of Manhattan were produced…

Coming soon: the next four screen prints in the Primer for Prophets series: Cooked, Quaffed, Groomed, and Kissed. Release target = late February or early March. If you purchased a complete numbered set of the first foursome (Jived, Smoked, Ate, Drove), you have a preemptive claim on the identical statistic for this quartet. We’ve got your number.

… one to go:

Sketches for RCA Victor LP cover, 1955; final design below:

untitled tempera and pencil on paper, from sketchbook, ca. 1950s

business card, Davis Delaney Printing (ca. 1950s) pencil and tempera figures adaptedfor above card (from sketchbook)

unfinished, untitled pen & ink drawing, sketchbook entry, ca. early 1950s crawly critter (related?)

Spot illustration, Research & Engineering, April 1956

Detail, untitled holiday painting, ca. 1951. These stemware sophisticates also appear on a t-shirt Sketch, ca. 1951, featuring a draft of the celebratory duo

montage by IC using early 1950s Flora details Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Merry Saturnalia, Happy Festivus—whatever.