THE AVANT/GARDE DIARIES presents its latest extraordinaire -- a curious master forger who also masquerades as a priestly philanthropist. Mark Landis is a 58 year-old American painter who is estimated to have successfully donated more than a hundred forged art pieces to museums as gifts. For nearly three decades, Landis has been donating his own copied works of obscure nineteenth-century American impressionists to small regional museums under the guise of an eccentric Jesuit priest who had inheri...
THE AVANT/GARDE DIARIES presents its latest extraordinaire -- a curious master forger who also masquerades as a priestly philanthropist. Mark Landis is a 58 year-old American painter who is estimated to have successfully donated more than a hundred forged art pieces to museums as gifts. For nearly three decades, Landis has been donating his own copied works of obscure nineteenth-century American impressionists to small regional museums under the guise of an eccentric Jesuit priest who had inheri...
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