![]() The Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Collection contains over 1,000 artifacts of tattoo equipment alone, including an early autographic printer pen made by Thomas Edison, thousands of tattoo business cards (signature relics in tattoo culture), photographs, storefront signage, and thousands of images of original flash art. With a passion for preserving the history of a then-underappreciated practice and artform in the U.S., Tuttle amassed an unrivaled private tattoo collection with ephemera in the thousands from around the world and dating back to the fifth century. He is attributed with bringing tattoo culture into U.S. By the early 1970s, Tuttle had become a renowned tattoo artist in San Francisco with loyal clients including Janis Joplin and many other popular singers and performers. At 14 years old, he received his first tattoo from Duke Kaufman and then others from Bert Grimm, both legendary figures in tattoo culture, before embarking on his own career as a tattooist. servicemen returning home from World War II. In the mid 1940s, a young Lyle Tuttle (1931–2019) was lured into the then-underground culture of tattoo art after seeing the intriguing tattoo designs on U.S. Reproduction and copyrights restricted and unauthorized without permission. soldiers visit tattoo artist George Burchett (1872–1953), known as the “King of Tattooists” in London, England, circa 1940s, courtesy of the Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Collection.Ĭourtesy of the Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Collection. This next blog brings us outside of our museum and into the Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Collection in San Francisco, California to explore the symbolism of tattoo body art during World War II. ![]() Tattoo flash art by Owen Jensen, courtesy of the Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Collection.įor the museum’s blog series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, I have focused on the Museum’s art collection and the embedded meanings in the paintings of Robert Jordan and Audrey Flack in relation to the war.
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