Collection art and info from known and anonymous vintage artists
TACO was a fetish illustrator active in the mid-20th century American “bizarre” art scene. Very little is known about the artist’s real identity or life. The only known work attributed to TACO is a special unexpurgated collection of bizarre and unusual drawings that appeared in the limited-edition publication Submission (fully illustrated). The…
Charles Maxwel Plaisted (1902 – 1956) was an American illustrator and comic artist best known for his work in the “spicy” pulp magazines of the 1930s and early comic books. Born in Penn Yan, New York, Plaisted studied at the University of Pennsylvania (1919–1923) and later at the Art Students…
Keiko Tagami (田上恵子) was a Japanese illustrator specializing in seme-e, drawings of women subjected to bondage and various forms of torment. Almost nothing is known about her personal life. No birth or death dates, no photographs of the artist herself, and no interviews have surfaced. Like many of the illustrators…
Toyen (born Marie Čermínová, 1902–1980) was a Czech painter, draughtsperson and illustrator, and one of the most singular and radical figures of European Surrealism. Adopting the gender-neutral pseudonym Toyen in the early 1920s, the artist rejected conventional feminine identity and moved freely between masculine and feminine presentation, both in life…
László Boris (1897–1924) was a Hungarian graphic artist, illustrator, caricaturist, and etcher whose brief career left a distinctive mark on early 20th-century erotic and satirical art. Born in Budapest in 1897, Boris studied art in his hometown before spending time in Paris. During World War I he produced military maps…
– 2 albums/16 artworks – Jules-Arsène Garnier was a French painter, illustrator and engraver, born in Paris on 12 January 1847 and died there on 25 December 1889. A pupil of the celebrated academic master Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (after earlier studies in Toulouse), he…