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Mark Augustus Landis (born 1955) is an American painter who lives in Laurel, Mississippi. He is best known for donating large numbers of forged paintings and drawings to American art museums.
Apr 26, 2022 · 26 April 2022. Mark Landis Photo by Joseph Dalton. Twelve years ago, The Art Newspaper broke a story about a prolific—and somewhat eccentric—art forger, who had been placing his work in the ...
Meet Mark Landis. Mark Landis is an American artist best known as “the most prolific and successful art forger In United States history.” Mark has been written about extensively since first being exposed by the New York Times.
Sep 27, 2014 · A new documentary called Art & Craft tells the story of notorious art forger Mark Landis (above) and the museum registrar who spent more than three years hunting him down. Landis duped more...
Sep 18, 2014 · Mark Landis charitably donated precious art works to museums for over 30 years. But they weren’t real. Here, he shares the stories behind some of his best fakes, the subject of a new...
Mar 31, 2015 · Mark Landis spent 30 years donating works of art to respected museums and galleries - but the pictures were fakes that he had created himself.
Aug 19, 2013 · Alec Wilkinson visits Mark Landis in Mississippi, the faux-philanthropist who donated forged paintings to more than fifty art museums in twenty states.
