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'''Earl Marshawn Washington''' (b. ]) is an American ], ], ]. | |||
'''Earl Marshawn Washington''' (b. ]) is an American ], ], ], and ]er. He has manufactured or arranged for the manufacture of a large number of ]s which he has most frequently represented as the work of a great-grandfather, whose name he gave as “Earl Mack Washington” and whom Earl Marshawn Washington reported as having lived from ] to ], but whose real name and about whose life Earl Marshawn Washington has elsewhere confessed not to know. 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. Many of these images are in violation of copyright. Artists whose work Washington has copied include ], ], and ]. E.M. Washington is an African American artist and reported his grandfather as such, which led to increased interest in the work. | |||
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Earl Marshawn Washington (b. 1962) is an American entrepreneur, printmaker, engraver.
External links
- “Catch Me If You Can” by Alan Abrams in Forbes 20 September 2004
- Washington Unmasked (as preserved at the Internet Archive)
- Images of the woodblocks
- “Warning! False M.C. Escher prints are being offered for sale!” at MCEscher.com
- 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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