LOS ANGELES -- The late Finnish artist Touko Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, produced thousands of illustrations featuring men wearing tight or partially removed clothing. His work has ...

New York’s Artists Space is going deep on master of gay erotica Tom of Finland. The Finnish artist is known for his raunchy drawings of hypermuscular, dramatically endowed, leather-clad gay men. “Tom ...

“My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them.” Tom of Finland was an artist whose sexually charged drawings of musclemen impacted gay culture.

Tom of Finland, a moniker of Touko Laaksonen, was a Finnish illustrator best known for his distinctively stylized homoerotic drawings. An influential aesthetic force in late 20th-century gay culture, ...

Tom of Finland has long been recognized as one of the 20th century’s great visual innovators. As he confronted the stigmas and stereotypes that long burdened homosexual desire, his depictions of ...

Tom of Finland is the Norman Rockwell of gay sex. His artwork—drawings worshipping the male physique in unabashedly exaggerated masculine and sexual form—has retained cultural gay prominence decades ...