Once their was a naval engineer who loved to draw, he created more then 4000 bdsm sketches with themes like bondage, dominance, sadism, masochism. The art was created somewhere between 1960 and 1970.
In 2018 Bert Sliggers published the book A Drawing a Day (normal edition) and in 2023 he published a second book with 520 sketches in real format: BDSM fantasies of an American engineer.
You can order this book via his website.
Collectors might also be interested in the Deluxe version from 2018.
The identity of the artist is kept hidden because his family never knew about his sexual desires, or his enormous collection. After his death the (hidden) drawings were found, as well as many bondage and sex magazines from the fifties and lots of nude photos.
At first glance the American engineer reminded me of Tomi Ungerer who had a huge book, Erotoscope, published by Tashen, who early on presented many interesting erotic works. as did Glittering Images. Karen, your depth of knowledge regarding the history of fetish art is both impressive detailed and in depth. I’m very impressed. I have an interest in the early English fetish artists many unacknowleged. I used to know both Sardax and the deceased Peter X aka Terence Morgan. I am also interested in the output by an artist called Ursula whose art reminds me somewhat of Ronald Searle! Keep searching, discovering (and) publishing? I would buy. best. peteralasclaudio
Thank you peter for your kind words. It is nice to see how some art shows resemblance with the work from other artists. I know when starting this project I could get lost on the web trying to find out specific art from specific artists, let alone information since for so many artists there is little info known. I have to admit that I myself rely on the works from publishers who share their research either on blogs or in books, like Bert Sliggers who decided to share this legacy.