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Jim Flora

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James Flora (January 25, 1914 ‒ July 9, 1998), best known for his distinctive and idiosyncratic album cover art for RCA Victor and Columbia Records during the 1940s and 1950s, was also a prolific commercial illustrator from the 1940s to the 1970s and the author/illustrator of 17 popular children's books. [1]

49 relations: Alex Steinweiss, Andy Warhol, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Art director, Bellefontaine, Ohio, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Children's literature, Cincinnati, Collier's, Columbia Records, Commercial art, Cruise ship, Drawing, Fantagraphics Books, Fortune (magazine), Gene Deitch, Grammy Award, Grammy Award for Best Recording Package, Illustration, Irwin Chusid, J. D. King, J. Otto Seibold, Lane Smith (illustrator), Lord Buckley, Mademoiselle (magazine), Monsters, Inc., Newsweek, Ocean liner, Painting, Pearl Jam, Pete Docter, Pixar, Poetry slam, Quartet San Francisco, R. O. Blechman, Raymond Scott, RCA Records, Robert Lowry (writer), Rowayton, Shag (artist), Simon & Schuster, Sports Illustrated, Taylor Mali, The New York Times Magazine, Theremin, Tim Biskup, UPA (animation studio), Westport, Connecticut, Wood engraving.

Alex Steinweiss

Alexander "Alex" Steinweiss (March 24, 1917 – July 17, 2011) was a graphic design artist known for inventing album cover art.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

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Art Academy of Cincinnati

The Art Academy of Cincinnati is a private college of art and design in Cincinnati, Ohio, accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.

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Art director

Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games.

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Bellefontaine, Ohio

Bellefontaine is a city in and the county seat of Logan County, Ohio, United States, located 48 miles northwest of Columbus.

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Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport is a historic seaport city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Cincinnati

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Collier's

Collier's was an American magazine, founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Commercial art

Commercial art is the art of creative services, referring to art created for commercial purposes, primarily advertising.

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Cruise ship

A cruise ship or cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, when the voyage itself, the ship's amenities, and sometimes the different destinations along the way (i.e., ports of call), are part of the experience.

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Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person uses various drawing instruments to mark paper or another two-dimensional medium.

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Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the erotic Eros Comix imprint.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is an American multinational business magazine headquartered in New York City, United States.

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Gene Deitch

Eugene Merril Deitch (born August 8, 1924) is a Czech-American illustrator, animator and film director.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grammy Award for Best Recording Package

The Grammy Award for Best Recording Package is one of a series of Grammy Awards presented for the visual look of an album.

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Illustration

An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games and films.

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Irwin Chusid

Irwin Chusid (born April 22, 1951, Newark, New Jersey) is a journalist, music historian, radio personality and self-described "landmark preservationist".

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J. D. King

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J. Otto Seibold

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Lane Smith (illustrator)

Lane Smith (born August 25, 1959) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books.

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Lord Buckley

Lord Richard Buckley (born Richard Myrle Buckley; April 5, 1906 – November 12, 1960) was an American stand-up comedian and recording artist, who in the 1940s and 1950s created a character that was, according to The New York Times, "an unlikely persona...

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Mademoiselle (magazine)

Mademoiselle was a women's magazine first published in 1935 by Street and Smith and later acquired by Condé Nast Publications.

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Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.

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Ocean liner

An ocean liner is a passenger ship primarily used as a form of transportation across seas or oceans.

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Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base).

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Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990.

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Pete Docter

Peter Hans Docter (born October 9, 1968) is an American film director, animator, screenwriter, producer, voice actor and chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios.

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Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios, commonly referred to as Pixar, is an American computer animation movie studio based in Emeryville, California that is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Poetry slam

A poetry slam is a competition in which poets perform spoken word poetry.

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Quartet San Francisco

Quartet San Francisco is a non-traditional and eclectic string quartet led by violinist Jeremy Cohen.

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R. O. Blechman

R.O. Blechman (born 1930), is an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions.

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Raymond Scott

Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow, September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994) was an American composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Robert Lowry (writer)

Robert James Collas Lowry (28 March 1919 — 5 December 1994) was an American novelist, short story writer, illustrator, and independent press publisher.

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Rowayton

Rowayton is an affluent coastal village in the city of Norwalk, Connecticut, roughly 40 miles from New York City.

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Shag (artist)

Josh Agle (born August 31, 1962) is an American artist, better known by the nickname Shag.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an American sports magazine owned by Meredith Corporation.

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Taylor Mali

Taylor McDowell Mali (born March 28, 1965) is an American slam poet, humorist, teacher, and voiceover artist.

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The New York Times Magazine

The New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times.

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Theremin

The theremin (--> originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer).

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Tim Biskup

Tim Biskup (born September 21, 1967 in Santa Monica, California) is an American artist.

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UPA (animation studio)

United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an American animation studio active from the 1940s through the 1970s.

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Westport, Connecticut

Westport is an affluent town located in Connecticut, along Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

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Wood engraving

Wood engraving --> is a printmaking and letterpress printing technique, in which an artist works an image or matrix of images into a block of wood.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Flora

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