A Kaleidoscopic Talent

Summer, 2019

An appreciation of artist Kinuko Craft, whose ingenuity graced PLAYBOY’s pages across five decadesDetail of Craft’s illustration for a June 1987 PLAYBOY fiction piece titled The Egret.One day in 1974, Kinuko Yamabe Craft hand-delivered to Playboy’s Chicago office a set of paintings she’d been commissioned to create for the magazine. Designed to accompany a “ribald classic,” Craft’s elaborate wood-panel triptych (right) and two additional works were so skillfully done, from the intricate medieval...