Earl Marshawn Washington (b. 1962) is an American entrepreneur, printmaker, engraver, and counterfeiter. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a company enterprise, or Venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome Printmaking is the Process of making artworks by Printing, normally on Paper. Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it A counterfeit is an imitation that is made usually with the intent to deceptively represent its content or origins

Contents 1 Activities 2 Discovery 3 References 3.1 Further resources

Activities

Beginning in 1998, woodcut prints from Washington began appearing on eBay and elsewhere; Washington claiming variously that the woodcuts were originals by famous artists, that they had been made by a great-grandfather whom he identified as named “Earl Mack Washington” and as having lived from 1862 until 1952, or that this alleged great-grandfather had rescued the associated blocks from a fire-bombed Manhattan print shop in the 1880s. For the origins of the technique and non-artistic use see Woodblock printing; for the related technique invented in the 18th century see Wood engraving eBay Inc is an American Internet company that manages eBaycom an Online auction and shopping Website in which people and businesses buy and Year 1862 was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Monday Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York Events and Trends Technology Development and commercial production of Electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered ^[1][2] E. M. Washington is an African American artist and reported his great-grandfather as such, which led to increased interest in the work. It was estimated by September 2004 that as many as 60,000 prints had been sold, at prices ranging from $20 to a $350. ^[1] (Washington himself has since admitted to “creating over 1700 wood engravings”. )

Discovery

In 1999, not long after Washington's work began being sold, a Canadian collector and lawyer, Kenneth Martens, found that Washington had counterfeited work by Eric Gill. Arthur Eric Rowton Gill ( 22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was a British sculptor, typeface designer, Unable to get eBay or other authorities to act, Martens created a website, “Washington Unmasked”, which began assembling and presenting evidence that Washington's work was counterfeit. The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked Hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. ^[1] The M. C. Escher Co. found that Washington was forging the work of M. C. Escher,^[3] pressed eBay into promising that it would forbid listing of these, and filed a complaint of criminal fraud in California, as prints were being handled there by stripper Stacy Ortiz (who would later become Washington's wife). Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972 usually referred to as M A striptease or Exotic dance is a form of erotic entertainment usually a Dance, in which the performer known as a "stripper" gradually undresses ^[1] Another collector was unable to find any census record for Earl Mack Washington; others failed to find corresponding Social Security records, or evidence in the records of artists with whom Earl Mack Washington had supposedly associated. Social Security, in the United States currently refers to the federal Old-Age Survivors and Disability Insurance ( OASDI) program ^[1] An expert in art deco identified one of the images, duplicating work by Rockwell Kent, as necessarily dated more than twenty years after the supposed death of the supposed Earl Mack Washington. Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939 affecting the decorative arts such as Architecture, Interior design, and Industrial Rockwell Kent ( June 21, 1882 &ndash March 13 1971) was an American painter printmaker illustrator and writer ^[1]

A special exhibition of the work, scheduled for October of 2004 at the Mid America Council Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska, was cancelled by the Amity Art Foundation after Washington both failed to produce proof that the work was other than his own and was discovered using advertisement for the exhibition to persuade others of the legitimacy of the work. The City of Lincoln ( Umóⁿhoⁿ: Nískithe Tʰóⁿwoⁿgthoⁿ ˈnĩskiˡðe ˌtʰãwãŋgˡðã meaning "Salt Village" for Salt Creek which was the ^[1]

A criminal complaint was filed in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, by the owners of Prairie Home Antiques, who had purchased 82 prints from Washington for $1,640 on 17 June 2004. Kalamazoo County is a county in the US state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the population was 238603 Events 1462 - Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II ( The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " ^[1]

One of Washington's former girlfriends, hairdresser Terra Zavala, provided Martens with a signed statement that she had witnessed Washington creating some of the woodcuts, and that Earl Marshawn Washington had admitted to her not knowing even the name of his great-grandfather. Girlfriend is a term that can refer to either a Female partner in a non- marital romantic relationship or a female non-intimate Friend ^[1]

By 2004, Washington admitted to creating some of the images, but insisted that he had not invented Earl Mack Washington. Some of Washington's more recent listings on eBay, however, declare

African American Artist Earl M. Washington gained worldwide recognition as a wood engraver by faking his death and creating over 1700 wood engravings and offering them to the art buying public at extremely affordable prices. [1]

Virtually all of the images appear to be copies of the work of other artists, available from books or other reprints, traced onto blocks. Some images have no significant modifications; in other cases the modifications result in absurdities, such as incongruous reflections and German words turned into nonsense. ^[4]

References

Further resources

• Washington Unmasked (as preserved at the Internet Archive)
• “‘Original woodblock’ prints by E.M. Washington: an art scam” from the Philadelphia Print Shop
• The Amity Art Foundation on the cancellation of an exhibit, at the Mid America Council Conference in October of 2004, of prints by Earl M. Washington

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