Artoria Gibbons

[2][3] She was born Anna Mae Burlingston in Linwood, Wisconsin in 1893 to Gunder Asbjørnsen Huseland, a Norwegian immigrant from Fjære [4]who had emigrated to the USA in 1882 and had taken the name Frank Burlington, and Amma Mabel Mason.

Gibbons tattoos also included illustrations of angels and saints as well as patriotic images, such as George Washington on her sternum.

Her tattoos, which would come to cover 80% of her body,later featured renditions of paintings by the old masters such as angels by Raphael and the Holy Family by Michelangelo[7], a partial Annunciation by Botticelli well as likeness of "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci on her back, a depiction of the Virgin Mary on one tigh and the infant Jesus on the other tigh.

[9] Towards the later end of her life Gibbons and her husband settled in California where its possibly she pursued a career as a tattoo artist.

[5] The couple is said to have operated a tattoo parlour situated in the grounds of The Pike amusement park in Long Beach[2][10].