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click for panoramic magnificence Flora created the woodcut RAILROAD TOWN in 1951, during his 15-month family sojourn in Mexico. It’s a manic mural, crammed with sinister figures interlocking like rune-shaped brickwork. Pictured above is a 2007 relief print, with black ink on 280g archival-quality Rives BFK cream. The block measures 11″ x 22-1/4″, and the full print (with border) measures 18-3/4″ x 30″. Working with Yee-Haw Industrial Letterpress of Knoxville, we will produce a limited…

Choo-choo, woo-woo! Another small segment from a larger work (also featured in its entirety in The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora). No date attributed to this work, nor is it titled, but its whistle has a familiar refrain. Jim Flora’s affinity for the railroad yard and its denizens dates back to the mid-1930s when he returned to his home state of Ohio after exploring a brief scholarship granted to him by the Boston Architectural…