Own an "authentic forgery" by Mark Landis, whose forgeries are owned by dozens of museums throughout the country... and could be hanging on your wall too! Landis is known to many as the most prolific art forger who never committed a crime. Don't miss this opportunity to own your own skillfully copied oil painting of a work by Curran, signed by Mark Landis, plus a DVD of the award-winning acclaimed documentary, ART AND CRAFT

Charles Courtney Curran was born in 1860 in Hartford Kentucky and moved to Sandusky, Ohio. He began his formal training in art at the Cincinnati School of Design and became a well respected impressionist painter when moving to New York where he enrolled in The National Academy of Art.  He is well known as an impressionist figure and landscape painter, a prolific artist who created light filled paintings, often of women.

This is a copy 9x5 on wood by Mark Landis. Mark Landis  has an impressive body of work that spans thirty years, covering a wide range of painting styles and periods. While the copies could fetch impressive sums on the open market and were in many museums around the country, Landis is not interested in money and has been gifting his work for years. Posing as a philanthropic donor, Landis has given away hundreds of paintings to institutions all over the United States. His work and history are now on the screen in a documentary movie organized and directed by Jennifer Grausman, a Belvoir alumnae. 

A copy of  Art and Craft, which was a finalist in its field for the Oscar and has been shown in NYC,in Paris, around the country and is now available on TV., is included with this painting.