[1] From 1881 to 1894 the full title was The Artist and Journal of Home Culture.

From 1896 the full title became The Artist: An Illustrated Monthly Record of Arts, Crafts and Industries.

An American edition was published in New York by Truslove, Hanson & Comba.

Under the editorship of Charles Kains Jackson, 1888–94, The Artist and Journal of Home Culture contained a notable undercurrent of homoeroticism and had some importance in the homosexual subculture without being so overt as to alienate its mainstream readership.

[2][3] Described by scholar Thomas Waugh as a "closet pedophile" publication, it featured Uranian poetry and photographs of boys by Wilhelm von Gloeden.