Longtime Art Forger Sentenced to More Than Four Years in Prison

Earl Marshawn E.M. Washington (b.1962), woodcut after Hale Woodruff, a WPA artist, signed 1937. Woodblock forgery is probably as old as woodblock printing itself, and it is still going on. On April 2, Earl M. Washington, artist, and seller of woodblock prints, received a prison sentence of more than four years for conspiracy to commit […]