Filed Under: "sketches"

untitled pencil sketches, early 1940s

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?)

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

Untitled sketches and figures from sketchbook, ca. early 1950s. The hungry fellow on the bottom looks familiar:

Pencil sketch, ca. 1988-1991. Purpose unknown, but presumably an invitation to some festiveness at the Flora home. Coincidentally, the above date marks the opening reception for our Jim Flora exhibit at the Fantagraphics Bookstore/Gallery. If you’re in Seattle on that date, you’re invited! Exhibit runs thru October 24 and features original paintings, fine art prints, woodcut relief prints, record covers, music ephemera, and Little Man Press artifacts.

Untitled, undated pencil drawing on onionskin paper; later printed in Gup, a 1942 chapbook authored by Robert Lowry, issued by Little Man Press (Cincinnati), featuring cover and interior illustrations by Flora.

Untitled pen & ink sketch, ca. 1940. I detect the influence of Daniel Johnston. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Never mind.

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.

untitled, undated pen and ink, ca. 1940