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Works of JIM FLORA at La Fiambrera Art Gallery

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Jim-Flora-Party-Guys-2
4 Notecards Set “Party Guys” 2

4 Notecards Set
2 inks silkscreen prints
11.5 x 17.5 cm

55.00
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Jim-Flora-Party-Guys-1
4 Notecards Set “Party Guys” 1

4 Notecards Set
2 inks silkscreen prints
11.5 x 17.5 cm

55.00
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jim-flora-ate
Ate

1954 (date of original work)
2007 (Date of printing)
Serigraphy
Edition of 100 copies
18.5 x 32.8 cm

100.00
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jim-flora-nursed
Nursed

1954 (date of original work)
2009 (Date of printing)
Serigraphy
Edition of 100 copies
18.5 x 32.8 cm

70.00
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jim-flora-economized
Economized

1954 (date of original work)
2008 (Date of printing)
Serigraphy
Edition of 100 copies
18.5 x 32.8 cm

70.00
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jim-flora-smoked
Smoked

1954 (date of original work)
2008 (Date of printing)
Serigraphy
Edition of 100 copies
18.5 x 32.8 cm

100.00
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jim-flora-groomed
Groomed

1954 (date of original work)
2008 (Date of printing)
Serigraphy
Edition of 100 copies
18.5 x 32.8 cm

70.00
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jim-flora-kissed
Kissed

1954 (date of original work)
2008 (Date of printing)
Serigraphy
Edition of 100 copies
18.5 x 32.8 cm

70.00
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jim-flora-washed
Washed

1954 (date of original work)
2008 (Date of printing)
Serigraphy
Edition of 100 copies
18.5 x 32.8 cm

70.00
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jim-flora-cooked
Cooked

1954 (date of original work)
2008 (Date of printing)
Serigraphy
Edition of 100 copies
18.5 x 32.8 cm

70.00
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jim-flora-underestimated
Underestimated

1954 (date of original work)
2008 (Date of printing)
Serigraphy
Edition of 100 copies
18.5 x 32.8 cm

70.00
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jim-flora-quaffed
Quaffed

1954 (date of original work)
2008 (Date of printing)
Serigraphy
Edition of 100 copies
18.5 x 32.8 cm

70.00
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jim-flora-drove
Drove

1954 (date of original work)
2007 (Date of printing)
Serigraphy
Edition of 100 copies
18.5 x 32.8 cm

100.00
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jim-flora-maritime-SET-OF-THREE
Maritime Vignettes

Set of three prints
Hand-printed (letterpress) on thick paper
10 x 23 cm (each)

45.00
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jim-flora-Sheffield-Island-silver-on-black
Sheffield Island (black)

Engraving on black paper with silver ink
Edition of 30 numbered
34 x 49.5 cm

270.00
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jim-flora-Sheffield-Island-black-on-white
Sheffield Island

Engraving on paper
Edition of 50 numbered
35 x 49.5 cm

270.00
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jim-flora-Paddlewheeler
Paddlewheeler

1952 (date of original work)
2022 (Print Date)
Giclee digital print
P.P.2/5
33 x 48.3 cm

270.00
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jim-Flora_White-block-quadrupeds
White Block Quadrupeds

1942 (date of original work)
2010 (Print Date)
Giclee digital print
Edition of 25 copies
28 x 43.2 cm

255.00
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jim-flora-pack-tarjetas-Dig-You-Later
Pack de 4 Tarjetas “Dig You Later”

4 postcards featuring classic Flora figures with musical themes from the 1940s and 1950s.
15.5 x 11.5cm

55.00
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jim-flora-Mardi-Gras-Quartet-pink
Mardi Gras Quartet (Rosa)

1950 (date of original work)
3 colors silk screen print
Limited edition of 125
19 x 23,5 cm

40.00
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jim-flora-Mardi-Gras-Quartet-blue
Mardi Gras Quartet (Azul)

1950 (date of original work)
3 colors silk screen print
Limited edition of 125
19 x 23,5 cm

40.00
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jim-flora-Mardi-Gras-Quartet-red
Mardi Gras Quartet (Rojo)

1950 (date of original work)
3 colors silk screen print
Limited edition of 125
19 x 23,5 cm

40.00
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jim-flora-Mardi-Gras-Quartet-white
Mardi Gras Quartet (Blanco)

1950 (date of original work)
3 colors silk screen print
Limited edition of 125
19 x 23,5 cm

40.00
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incred.flutist-1
The Incredible Flutist

2008 (date of print)
1954 (date of original work)
Digital print giclée
Limited edition of 20
48 x 33 cm

250.00
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benny-goodman-1
This is Benny Goodman

2007 (date of print)
1955 (date of original work)
Digital print giclée
Limited edition of 20
48 x 33 cm

290.00
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lord-buckley-1
Lord Buckley

2008 (date of print)
1955 (date of original work)
Digital print giclée
Artist proof PP:1/2, 2/2
33 x 48 cm

1,000.00
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spectators-940x436
Spectators

2016 (date of print)
1945 (date of original work)
Digital print giclée
Limited edition of 25
43 x 55,8 cm

260.00
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Krupa
Gene Krupa

2008 (date of print)
1947 (date of original work)
Digital print giclée
PP: 2/5, 5/5
33 x 48 cm

535.00
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Pete-Jolly-Duo
Pete Jolly Duo

1955 (date of original work)
Screen print
Limited edition of 125
51 x 51 cm

200.00
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jim-flora-Railroad-Town
Railroad Town

2007 (date of print)
1951 (date of original work)
Woodcut
Limited edition of 50
47,5 x 76,5 cm

1,070.00
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jim-flora-Canoe-Critters
Canoe Critters

2008 (date of print)
1965 (date of original work)
Digital print giclée
Limited edition of 100
43 x 28 cm

125.00
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jim-flora-Charles-Mother-Has-Come-to-Stay
Charles, Mother Has Come to Stay

2012 (date of print)
1960 (date of original work)
Digital print giclée
Limited edition of 25
28 x 43 cm

290.00
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jim-flora-Charlies-Egg
Charlie’s Egg

2009 (date of print)
1943 (date of original work)
Digital print giclée
Limited edition of 25
55,8 x 43 cm

270.00
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Inside-Sauter-Finegan
Inside Sauter-Finegan

2011 (date of print)
1954 (date of original work)
Digital print giclée
Limited edition of 25
55,8 x 43 cm

320.00
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Kid-Ory
Kid Ory

2009 (date of print)
1947 (date of original work)
Digital print giclée
Limited edition of 20
55,8 x 43 cm

370.00
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Bix-&-Tram
Bix and Tram

2012 (date of print)
1947 (date of original work)
Digital print giclée
PP: 1/5
43 x 55,8 cm

670.00
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Louis-Armstrong
Louis Armstrong’s Hot 5

2009 (date of print)
1947 (date of original work)
Digital print giclée
H.C. 1/1
55,8 x 43 cm

1,000.00
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jim-flora-Uruapan-print
Uruapan

2022 (date of print)
Late 60’s (date of original work)
Digital print giclée on Hahnemühle 310 g paper
Limited edition of 20 copies plus proofs, numbered and stamped
43.2 x 55.9 cm

220.00
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jim-flora-Chioggia
Chioggia

2022 (date of print)
Mid 1962’s (date of original work)
Digital print giclée on Hahnemühle 310 g paper
Limited edition of 20 copies plus proofs, numbered and stamped
43.2 x 55.9 cm

240.00
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The Artist Biography

Jim Flora, United States Of America, (1914 Bellefontaine, Ohio – 1998 Rowayton, Connecticut)

James (Jim) Flora is best-known for his wild jazz and classical album covers for Columbia Records and RCA Victor (late 1940s to late 1950s), but he authored and illustrated 17 popular children’s books and flourished for decades as a magazine illustrator. At the time, few knew that Flora was also a prolific fine artist with a devilish sense of humor and a flair for juxtaposing playfulness, absurdity and violence. Cute — and deadly. 

Flora’s album covers pulsed with angular hepcats bearing funnel-tapered noses and shark-fin chins who fingered cockeyed pianos and honked lollipop-hued horns. Yet this childlike exuberance was subverted by a tinge of the diabolic. Flora wreaked havoc with the laws of physics, conjuring flying musicians, levitating instruments, and wobbly dimensional perspectives. Taking liberties with human anatomy, he drew bonded bodies and misshapen heads, while inking ghoulish skin tints and grafting mutant appendages. On some Flora figures, three legs and five arms were standard equipment, with spare eyeballs optional. His fine art works reflect the same comic yet disturbing qualities. 

Born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, in 1914, James Flora was trained at the Art Academy of Cincinnati (1936-39). After struggling as a commercial freelancer, in 1942 he moved to Connecticut after accepting a job in the Columbia Records art department. One year later the label appointed him art director. Flora revolutionized the look of Columbia’s ads and retail circulars with his wild cartoonish illustrations. He was promoted several times, and though no longer art director, he began illustrating jazz album covers for the label in 1947. However, his executive chores with the company meant less opportunity to create art. In 1950, Flora resigned and moved to Mexico with his family. After 15 months of exotic life south of the border, during which he and his wife created a mountain of art, Flora returned to Connecticut in 1951. He embarked on a lengthy and prosperous career as a freelance commercial artist, children’s book author/illustrator, and album cover designer for RCA Victor. Despite the demanding deadlines, Flora found time to indulge his fine art impulses. He painted, sketched, created woodcuts, and made relief prints at home and during travels. Even in retirement, and particularly during the decade before his death in July 1998, he created an enormous body of work. 

Jim Flora artworks in La Fiambrera Art gallery

La Fiambrera Art Gallery is proud to present James Flora’s mischievous art to public thru his fine art prints, serigraph prints, and woodcuts, by special arrangement with the Jim Flora Estate and co-archivists Irwin Chusid and Barbara Economon.

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