‘intent To Deceive’ Brings Fakes And Forgeries Back To Oklahoma City Museum Of Art

Brandy McDonnell [img url=http://blog.newsok.com/dittocontent/uploads/sites/28/2015/02/intent-to-deceive-Mark_Landis_Untitled_boat_on_a_river.jpg]3566449[/img] A version of this story appears in the Sunday Life section of The Oklahoman. 'Intent to Deceive' brings fakes and forgeries to Oklahoma City Museum of Art The traveling exhibition "Intent to Deceive: Fakes and Forgeries in the Art World" features works from five prolific forgers, including Mark Landis, a mentally ill counterfeiter who fooled nearly 60 museums, including the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, into accepting donations of his forgeries of famed artists' masterworks. Mark Landis' faked masterpieces are returning to the place where the notorious con artist's downfall began: the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The traveling exhibition "Intent to Deceive: Fakes and Forgeries in the Art World," featuring 60 works by five prolific forgers, including Landis, opens Saturday at the museum, one of nearly 60 institutions in about 20 different states it's believed that Landis fooled by donating his stunning replicas of famed artists' works. "Mark Landis first deceived the museum with a watercolor by Louis Valtat, the French artist, back in 2007.Read more on NewsOK.com