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Tom of Finland

1920 - 1991

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Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), known by the pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized erotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade. Over the course of four decades, he produced some 3,500 illustrations, mostly featuring men with exaggerated sexual traits, wearing tight or partially removed clothing. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tom of Finland is the 619th most popular painter (down from 403rd in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Finland (down from 39th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Finnish Painter.

Tom of Finland is most famous for his homoerotic drawings of muscular, masculine men.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Tom of Finland ranks 619 out of 2,023. Before him are Edmund Leighton, Arshile Gorky, Jules Breton, Hans Burgkmair, Frans Masereel, and Francesco del Cossa. After him are Bernard van Orley, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, Will Sampson, Anton Janša, Paul Bril, and Jean-Paul Laurens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Tom of Finland ranks 105. Before him are Roberto Calvi, Gottfried Böhm, Eileen Chang, Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, Vilém Flusser, and Hans Blumenberg. After him are Victor Turner, Bruno Maderna, Väinö Linna, Peggy Lee, Marlen Haushofer, and Don Taylor. Among people deceased in 1991, Tom of Finland ranks 69. Before him are Aladár Gerevich, Robert Maxwell, María Zambrano, Boris Pugo, Vilém Flusser, and Willi Boskovsky. After him are Ralph Bellamy, Sergey Akhromeyev, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Gene Roddenberry, John Kerr, and Eric Carr.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Tom of Finland ranks 63 out of 751. Before him are Hannu Mikkola (1942), Marco Hietala (1966), Georg Henrik von Wright (1916), Aimo Cajander (1879), Tarja Turunen (1977), and Fredrik Idestam (1838). After him are Lasse Virén (1949), Eino Leino (1878), Ville Ritola (1896), Eero Saarinen (1910), Leif Segerstam (1944), and Väinö Linna (1920).

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Among PAINTERS In Finland

Among painters born in Finland, Tom of Finland ranks 5. Before him are Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865), Helene Schjerfbeck (1862), Albert Edelfelt (1854), and Hugo Simberg (1873). After him are Amélie Lundahl (1850), Elin Danielson-Gambogi (1861), Ellen Thesleff (1869), Magnus Enckell (1870), Pekka Halonen (1865), Fanny Churberg (1845), and Helena Westermarck (1857).

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