Artist · Finland

1920 to 1991

Also signed as

“Tom of Finland”

Portrait of Tom de Finlàndia
Born1920
Born inKaarina
CountryFinland
Workcartoonist
Alsoillustrator
Died1991
Died inHelsinki

Tom de Finlàndia.

cartoonist · illustrator

Finland, 1920 to 1991

In short

Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 to 7 November 1991), known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized erotic art featuring suggestively hypermasculine male characters. He worked primarily in pencil, producing drawings on paper and for publication in a variety of magazines and other formats. These works profoundly influenced late 20th-century gay culture and sexuality, their rise in popularity coinciding with gay law reform successes and the cultural and political emergence of LGBTQ+ communities from the 1960s onward.

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Biodata

Born
1920, Kaarina
Died
1991, Helsinki
Citizenship
Finland
Work
cartoonist, illustrator, painter
Also known as
Tom of Finland
Career

Tom de Finlàndia, in numbers

Lifetime

Sketchbook

Portrait of Tom de Finlàndia