Green’s Dictionary of Slang

rape artist n.

a rapist.

1931		C.R. Shaw Nat. Hist. Delinq. Career [no text] [Simes:DLSS].
1953		Waterfront Investigation: New York-New Jersey 19: George ‘Rape Artist’ Donohue, Barney ‘Cockeye’ Brown, and Anthony ‘Boston’ Lepore - all with extensive criminal backgrounds.
1961		Odyssey Rev. I 87: [A] rape artist who used to grab young girls in dark corners and after he finished with them he killed them.
1962		Ragen & Finston World’s Toughest Prison 814: rape hound – A sex offender.
1968		N. Heard Howard Street 101: You’re a rape artist as well as a mugger, eh, you little chink-eyed punk?