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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.
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...
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.
Dec 27, 2014 · Mark Landis, the forger whose hoodwinking of more than 50 museums across 20 states was the subject of this year’s documentary Art and Craft, does not exactly play to type.
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.
Apr 26, 2022 · Sometimes masquerading as a Jesuit priest, and often using a false identity, Mark Landis donated fakes he had skillfully drawn or overpainted himself to regional institutions across the country...
Jan 11, 2011 · Mark A. Landis is one of the most prolific forgers American museums have encountered in years. But he does not seem to be in it for the money.
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.
Sep 23, 2014 · On the surface, Mark Landis might not seem like the sort of person who would make for cinematic gold. The man is pushing 60. He is slight and pale, with a bald pate and prominent ears.
