Talk:E. M. Washington

message: Someone has once again edited this listing to validate the claims of this forger.  The edits of Dec 15-27, 2007 are all vandalism!!   User:Printguy  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Printguy (talk • contribs) 19:47, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing to validate forgery 

message: Washington Unmasked website is currently down (a parked domain); it can be accessed using Internet Archive. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 10:01, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've replaced the defunct link with a version preserved at the Internet Archive. —SlamDiego←T 20:10, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Note 

message: I note that all of the edits to-date from 66.91.58.100 are to this article, that they are designed to erase unfortunate truths and to promote Washington as a great talent  , and that 66.91.58.100 is in Hawai'i, whence Washington now claims to operate. (On this last point, see auction descriptions and seller location from eBay sales by e.m.washingtonthesource.) —SlamDiego←T 22:43, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That auction, which was for an Escher forgery, has been cancelled by eBay, as has another auction by thomiswil for an eBay forgery.  The remaining Washington auction is for a swipe of an illustration by Brad Parker.  It seems that the thomiswil account is being used to circumvent attempts to stop Washington's violations of copyright. —SlamDiego←T 07:06, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attacks on the article by Earl himself! 

message: Thomiswil inserted a claim in the article that Washington “recently made a deal with the M.C. Escher Estate to sell all remaining blocks to them” (underscore mine); Escher.com has been queried about this claim.  —12.72.71.102 (talk) 14:08, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Escher Lisencors Contacted 

message: Ha!  Look at the discussion on SketchKult.com concerning Washngton expropriating the work of Brad Parker!  Washington just won't quit stealing! —SlamDiego←T 23:20, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Now as for the genius "Parker" who penned this masterpiece, PLEASE DON'T TRIP THE FU_K OUT!!  Consider this my resume.  Perhaps we can collaborate on some other projects because your drawings stimulate me and they translate superbly to the woodcut medium (you know what that means $$$$$$$$$$$$$$).  Of course I'll throw you some bucks for this gem so don't sick your litigious hounds on me.  Like Gustave Dore' and Pannemaker did 150 years ago- we can put some incredible sh-t together.
Washington just feels entitled to swipe at will! —SlamDiego←T 23:23, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Washington Still Stealing! 

message: In eBay feedback time-stamped “Mar-08-08 11:03”, Washington reports that he is moving his studio from Hawai't to Kansas. —SlamDiego←T 21:39, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  EMW on the move? 

message: Washington's eBay account has been suspended. —SlamDiego←T 23:04, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  eBay Account Suspended 

message: Earl has created a new eBay account, emwashingtonthesource (same name as the old one, except that he's dropped the periods).  He plainly doesn't have eBay's permission to come back — the old account is still suspended.  In his new auction descriptions, he gives yet another version of his story:
:My name is Earl M. Washington (A.K.A.  E.M. WASHINGTON) and if you Google (E.M.WASHINGTON WOODCUT) you will find many controversial and negative "biased" articles about who I was; whom I'm alleged to be and what some would like me to be.  I am largely responsible for the initial confusion about E.M. WASHINGTON because 9 years ago I claimed to be the great grandson of my deceased great-grandfather named Earl Mack Washington (who was actually my uncle).  At the time I lived in Venice Beach, California struggling to find my way as an artist/wood engraver by selling woodcuts on the boardwalk in front of the Sidewalk Cafe.  In those lean days I was lucky if I made $20 per day.
:As a completely self-taught wood engraver, I learned to engrave wood-blocks by copying wood engraved images from the 1920's 30's and 40's entirely by hand.  I mastered one engraving tool at a time, engraving up to 17 hours per day (every single day) for about three years until I fully understood and could expertly use up to 100 different vintage engraving tools.   I didn't copy woodcuts from the Master's because I was a counterfeiter or a forger as FORBES MAGAZINE  would have the public believe, I copied woodcuts because that was the only way I "could" or knew how to engrave, there were no classes to teach wood engraving so I taught myself.
And he now claims
:The facts of my "stranger than fiction" art career will eventually be detailed in an autobiography and television documentary titled "The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth".  Also planned is a 260 page coffee table catalog raisonne of most of the 1700 wood-cuts that I have copied or re-engraved in the last decade.
I doubt that he'll get very far with the project of the books or documentary — his sneaking back onto eBay shows a level of desperation.  But if any is created then it should probably be referenced in the article. —SlamDiego←T 20:44, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Back on eBay, claim of forthcoming books and documentary 

message: I have been notified that some of the work recently sold by Washington on eBay is plagarized from the illustrations which were done by Alexander King for The Magic Island by W. B. Seabrook. (Washington hasn't even said that these illustrations are “after” King.) Washington may have also copied other illustrations by King. —SlamDiego←T 12:06, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alexander King 

message: I am deleting the phrase "african american" because the race of the artist is neither important, nor relevant.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.64.40.3 (talk) 02:29, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You're quite wrong.  Washington's work was and is marketed (by him and by others) based in large part upon interest in African American artists qua African Americans. —SlamDiego←T 03:10, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "african american" 

message: The eBay account emwashingtonthesource is no longer registered.  On 13 February, an account fineprintarchives was created;  it's pretty clearly Washington again, based on the items presently being sold, and the manner in which they are being pitched.  Items are listed as being located in Las Vegas, and the account itself is listed as for a user located in Nevada.
It would be nice if we could get a “reliable source” to place Washington as now in the Las Vegas area.
BTW, some of the listings misrepresent when their prints were created. —SlamDiego←T 11:03, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where's Grissom? 

message: On 4 October 2005, in the Michigan Court of Wayne County, an Earl Marshawn Washington, born on 11 December 1954, was convicted on charges of receiving stolen property on 6 July 2005 worth more than $20 but less than $1000. (Case number 05007403.) This Earl Marshawn Washington was given probation and required to pay a fine.
Now the Earl Marshawn Washington who is the subject of this article was supposedly born in 1962, and from his pictures I'd say that an age of 54 is unlikely, but not perfectly impossible.
For now, we should presume that this is a different Earl Marshawn Washington. —SlamDiego←T 17:45, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Earls Washington 

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