Tom of Finland
Rubber Stamp Tea Towel
£20
100% cotton twill tea towel featuring a magazine advert for Tom of Finland mail-order rubber stamps, exclusive to House of Voltaire
Dimensions
68.5 x 47 cm
Finishing
100% cotton twill
Tom of Finland, 'Untitled', 1962. From the Atlantic Model Guild 'The Tattooed Sailor' series. © 1962 Tom of Finland Foundation.Courtesy the Tom of Finland Foundation
About The Artwork
With few copyright protections, Tom of Finland’s images were frequently pirated. In response, the artist established the Tom of Finland Company in 1979 to protect his rights and publish his work, producing a wide range of associated merchandise, including t-shirts, rubber stamps and even sex toys. This cotton twill tea towel featuring a magazine advert for mail-order rubber stamps by Tom of Finland has been made exclusively for House of Voltaire to coincide with Studio Voltaire’s major exhibition ‘Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland’, bringing together the work of these two cultural icons for the very first time.
About Tom of Finland
Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, b.1920- d.1991) has been the subject of numerous solo and two-person exhibitions, including ‘Beryl Cook/Tom of Finland’ at Studio Voltaire, as well as Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Gallery X Tokyo and Osaka, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Artists Space New York Kunsthalle Helsinki and Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Key group exhibitions include ARoS Aarhus Art Museum Denmark, Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Institute of Contemporary Art London and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation New York. His work is in the permanent collections of institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and SFMOMA, San Francisco.