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Tom of Finland  

Sketches from the archive of the legendary Tom of Finland will once again—it’s easily been ten or so years—hang on the walls of Feature Inc. Tom of Finland, the artist who took masculine to macho and big to XXX large, clocked the butch gay clone phenomenon at its onset and blew it out. His super-hung studs, with more t&a than any cheesecaker could aspire to, are packed for action yet also deliver knowing glances and looks that are full of the camaraderie and humor that his vision of a utopian man-to-man culture was based on.

Tom of Finland, Touko Laaksonen by birth, was born on the south coast of Finland on May 8, 1920. He trained and worked in design and advertising and in 1973, left his job to work full time on his drawings. Between 1978 and 1988, Tom of Finland split his time between Helsinki and Los Angeles; he died of an emphysema-induced stroke on November 7, 1991. This exhibition is made in cooperation with the Los Angeles-based Tom of Finland Foundation.



  TOM OF FINLAND TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, 1978 toff7801 TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, 1989 toff8901 TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, 1980 toff8001 TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, undated; toffxx16   TOM OF FINLAND : Untitled; ndated toffxx07   TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, c.1969 toff6901   TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, 1978 toff7802   TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, 1972 toff7201   TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, undated toffxx08   TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, 1970 toff7001   TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, undated toffxx02   TOM OF FINLAND: Unttitled, undated toffxx19   TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, 1988 toff8803   TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, c.1965 toff6501   TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, 1988 toff8802   TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, undated toffxx18   TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, 1977 toff7701   TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, undated toffxx15   TOM OF FINLAND : Untitled 1986toff8601   TOM OF FINLAND : Untitled 1988 toff9325   TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, 1986 toff9322   TOM OF FINLAND : Untitled 1977 toff7702   TOM OF FINLAND : Untitled 1977 toff7703   TOM OF FINLAND: Untitled, 1989 toff8902       > see and then some exhibition images
Untitled (preliminary drawing), 1988; graphite on paper; 11.75 x 8.25”;
signed; $6,600		 Untitled (preliminary drawing), 1978; graphite on paper; 11.75 x 8.25”; $6,600 Untitled (preliminary drawing), 1989; graphite on paper; 11.625 x 8.25”;
signed; $6,600		 Untitled (preliminary drawing), 1980; graphite on paper; 8.25 x 11.75”; signed; $ 6,600 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), undated; graphite on paper; 8.25 x 5.875”; $ 6,600 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), undated; graphite on paper;11.75 x 8.25”; $ 6,600 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), c.1969: graphite on paper; 11.75 x 8.25”; $6,600 space Untitled (preliminary drawing),1978; graphite on paper; 11.625 x 8.25”; $ 6,600 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), 1972;
graphite on paper; 10.875 x 8.25”; $ 6,600		 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), undated; graphite on paper; 11.75 x 8.25”; $ 6,600 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), 1970; graphite on paper; 8.25 x 5.875”; $ 6,600 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), undated; graphite on paper; 11.75 x 8.25”; $ 6,600 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), undated; graphite on paper; 11.75 x 8.25”;
signed; $ 6,600		 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), 1988;
graphite on paper; 11 x 8.5”; signed; $ 6,600		 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), c. 1965; graphite on paper; 11.625 x 8.25”; $ 6,600 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), 1988; graphite on paper; 11.75 x 8.25”;
signed; $ 6,600		 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), undated; graphite on paper; 11.75 x 8.25”;
signed; $ 6,600		 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), 1977; graphite on paper; 11.75 x 8.25”;
signed; $ 6,600		 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), undated; graphite on paper; 8.25 x 5.875”; $ 6,600 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), 1988; graphite on paper; 11.625 x 8.25”; $ 8,000 space Untitled (preliminary drawing), 1988; graphite on paper; 11.75 x 8.75”; $ 8,000 space Untitled, 1986; graphite on paper;
13 x 9.5”; $ 28,000		 space Untitled, 1977; graphite on paper;
14.75 x 11.25”; signed; NFS		 space Untitled, 1977; graphite on paper;
14.75 x 11.25”; signed; NFS		 space Untitled, 1989; colored pencil on paper;
11 x 8.5”; signed; NFS		 space  
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