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Tattoo Art by Samuel Steward Samuel Steward (July 23, 1909 – December 31, 1993) was a university professor who left teaching to became a tattoo artist and pornographer. He was friends with people like Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Alfred Kinsey, Paul Cadmus, George Platt Lynes , and other important LGBT writers and artist. In the 1960's, besides writing pornography under the name Phil Andros, he was the official tattoo artist for the Hells Angels. Throughout his life, he kept extensive secret diaries, journals and statistics of his sex life. In 1949 he met Alfred Kinsey and became an unofficial collaborator with Kinsey's Institute for Sex Research. He wrote several non pornographic novels, a book of poetry, and several memoirs focusing on different aspects of his life. There are also several biographies of his life, the most well known being Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade.