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Jim Flora, the Glossary

James Royer Flora (January 25, 1914 ‒ July 9, 1998) was an American artist best known for his distinctive and idiosyncratic album cover art for RCA Victor and Columbia Records during the 1940s and 1950s.^[1]

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Painters from Cincinnati

Alex Steinweiss

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

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.

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Art Academy of Cincinnati

The Art Academy of Cincinnati is a private college of art and design in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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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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Atheneum Books

Atheneum Books was a New York City publishing house established in 1959 by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., Simon Michael Bessie and Hiram Haydn.

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Bellefontaine, Ohio

Bellefontaine is a city in, and the county seat of, Logan County, Ohio, United States, located 48 miles (77 km) northwest of Columbus.

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Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut and the fifth-most populous city in New England, with a population of 148,654 in 2020.

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Children's literature

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

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Cincinnati

Cincinnati (nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

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Collier's

Collier's was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as Collier's Once a Week, then renamed in 1895 as Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal, shortened in 1905 to Collier's: The National Weekly and eventually to simply Collier's.

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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 American division of multinational 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

Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing.

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Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface.

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Fantagraphics

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

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune (stylized in all caps) is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City.

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Gene Deitch

Eugene Merril Deitch (August 8, 1924 – April 16, 2020) was an American illustrator, animator, comics artist, and film director who was based in Prague from the 1960s until his death in 2020.

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Ginnie Hofmann

Ginnie Hofmann (September 30, 1920 – December 29, 2014) was an American artist and illustrator most noted for her illustrations in the Joy of Cooking and her paper dolls in Betsy McCall magazine. Jim Flora and Ginnie Hofmann are American children's book illustrators and art Academy of Cincinnati alumni.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Harcourt (publisher)

Harcourt was an American publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children.

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Illustration

An illustration is a decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process, designed for integration in print and digitally 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 in Newark, New Jersey) is a journalist, music historian, radio personality, record producer, and self-described "landmark preservationist".

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J. D. King

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J. Otto Seibold

James Otto Seibold (born 1960) is an American artist and children's book creator. Jim Flora and J. Otto Seibold are American children's book illustrators.

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Lane Smith (illustrator)

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

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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 & Smith and later acquired by Condé Nast Publications.

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Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc. (also known as Monsters, Incorporated) is a 2001 American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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Ocean liner

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

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Painting

Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support").

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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 filmmaker and animator.

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Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios, known simply as Pixar, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films.

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Poetry slam

A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges.

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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

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Raymond Scott

Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow; September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994) was an American composer, band leader, pianist, record producer, and inventor of electronic instruments.

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RCA Records

RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Richard Staples Dodge

Richard Staples (Dick) Dodge (January 18, 1918 – May 24, 1974) was an American illustrator. Jim Flora and Richard Staples Dodge are American children's book illustrators, art Academy of Cincinnati alumni and artists from Connecticut.

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Robert Lowry (writer)

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

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Rowayton, Connecticut

Rowayton is an affluent coastal village in the city of Norwalk, Connecticut, roughly 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 LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated (SI) is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954.

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Taxco

Taxco de Alarcón (usually referred to as simply Taxco) is a small city and administrative center of Taxco de Alarcón Municipality located in the Mexican state of Guerrero.

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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

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New York Times Magazine

The New York Times Magazine is an American Sunday magazine 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 performer (who is known as a thereminist).

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Tim Biskup

Tim Biskup (born 1967), is an American visual artist and designer.

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United Productions of America

United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an American animation studio and later distribution company founded in 1941 as Industrial Film and Poster Service by former Walt Disney Productions employees.

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Westport, Connecticut

Westport is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, along the Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast.

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Wood engraving

Wood engraving --> is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image into a block of wood.

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References

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

Also known as James Flora.

, Tim Biskup, United Productions of America, Westport, Connecticut, Wood engraving.

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