He married again, but had been separated from his second wife for some years before he died. In 1949 he was listed as a member of the exclusive Double Crown Club for private press publishers and illustrators. While stationed in India during the First World War Poulton had come across the Kama Sutra, which prompted a fascination with erotic art. His gift for illustration was recognised by the fine art publisher The Nonesuch Press, for whom he produced illustrations for Fontanelle’s A Plurality of Worlds and Isaac Walton’s The Compleat Angler. At the Slade he met acclaimed lutenist Diana Kibblewhite, and they married in 1923, but the marriage was short-lived.
It was not until after his death that it was discovered that he had also secretly produced hundreds of sketches and finished drawings of people engaged in a wide range of uninhibited sexual activity.Ī talented artist, in 1914 Tom Poulton won a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where he was taught by renowned artist and teacher Henry Tonks.
Thomas Leycester Poulton was a British magazine and medical illustrator who provided artwork for a range of publications including the British Journal of Surgery and The Radio Times. Portrait of Desmond Chute, a fellow Slade student, by Tom Poulton, 1914
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