Donald Merrick (August 11, 1929 – October 14, 1990), better known by his pen name Domino, was an American artist active in the mid to late twentieth century.

[1] After graduating high school, he spent several years working his way across the country, including as a logger near Mount Rainier, a cab driver in Chicago, a forester in New Mexico, and a U.S. Navy serviceman.

"[3] He took inspiration from labor and preferred to depict his subjects going about their work, such police officers, truck drivers, gas station attendants, and restaurant workers.

Merrick's erotic art was heavily influenced by the working men he encountered in his youth, including dairy farmers, iron miners and U.S. Army recruits.

[1] Though he drew inspiration from gay erotic art, chiefly that of Tom of Finland, Merrick became disenchanted with the unattainable ideal of beauty that was often portrayed.

So I set myself the ambitious task to capture in ink the different kinds of individual sex appeal that make even ugly, or dirty, or threatening men beautiful.

[1] Two months later, the exhibit moved to Fey-Way Studios, after which the show catalog was published in a book, Domino: Original Drawings and Prints.