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

Detail, Distress and Dismay, tempera on paper, ca. 1971-74

Peril on the high seas.

Detail, draft manuscript, The Fabulous Firework Family (1955)

New Jim Flora fine art print launched on eBay. Two prints offered @ Buy-It-Now price of $250/ea. Not mentioned in item description: we have already sold prints 17/20 and 18/20; after the two launch prints sell, the next two released prints (15/20 and 16/20) will be offered at $300 via JimFlora.com. Elements of this early 1940s tempera were adapted for the cover of The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora.

A new fine art print of a wild 1970 Jim Flora tempera painting has been listed on eBay. We have editioned 20 prints of Chance Encounter, and only two are being offered at the launch price. 15 minutes later: SOLD.Further prints of this edition are available at JimFlora.com.

untitled pencil sketches, early 1940s

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

Detail, March 1943 Columbia-Okeh Popular Records monthly flyer panel: Okeh Country Dance, Folk Songs, and Blues

Waltz Time, pen and ink on card stockn/d (early 1990s), titled in pencil

Or perhaps she’s just contented. Early pencil sketch, ca. 1940. There are a number of pencil and pen sketches in the archives which evolved through stages into paintings. This, so far as we know, isn’t one.

Fantagraphics Books Art Director Jacob McCovey writes: Flora is jaw-dropping to the point of being a spokesman for TMD, not to mention Bipolar Disorder. The entire tsunami of illustrators/designers making a new-wave career producing rock posters should be paying alms to the descendants of the man who made album design such an emotional experience.