Word: forgers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FORGER (375 pp.)-Jay Williams -Afheneum...
...easily imitated earlier "metaphysical" style, began to flood the art market, the canny, cantankerous artist began to see the shape of things to come. Encouraged by friends, he painted early De Chiricos himself, even predating some of them until he was threatened with legal action. Between the phony forgers and the "genuine" forger, who to this day can turn out 20 paintings a month, confusion reigned...
Some of the fakers have taken their own places in art history. One Edward Simpson, a 19th century master forger of Stone Age implements, came to be admired among archaeologists as the fabulous "Flint Jack." Two illiterate London mudrakers named Billy and Charley produced and buried thousands of "ancient" metal objects, and such objects are known as "Billys and Charleys" to this day. An ingenious forger named Peter Thompson, actually a carpenter and builder living near Regent's Park in the 1840s, not only forged 17th century "master drawings," but also invented the master. He named the man Captain...
Though Eyre's "drawings" deceived London for quite a spell, the museum itself was in this case above reproach. Twice it turned down the opportunity to buy Eyre's Southwark Fair. But in the end Forger Thompson won out anyway. The museum became so intrigued by his work that it bought up the whole Eyre collection as an admirable example of an artful forger...
Occupational Therapy. In New Orleans, James W. Seaton, a convicted forger in Louisiana State Penitentiary, pleaded guilty to sending out fraudulent income tax returns to internal revenue offices in Louisiana. Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado and Utah, collecting $1,050 in refunds...