Fantagraphics •

Jim Flora is best known for his wild jazz and classical album covers for Columbia Records (late 1940s) and RCA Victor (1950s). Flora was also a prolific fine artist with a devilish sense of humor and a flair for juxtaposing playfulness, absurdity, and violence.

 |  "Picasso, Matisse, Steinberg, my friend Charles—they all stole from Jim Flora, who was both ahead of his time and before his time." —William Wegman  |  series  | 11 x 10 inches, 180 pages