Professor. After dropping out of the Art Institute of Chicago and failing to open . Also known as Mark A Lindis, Mark A Andis, Mary Landis. rightButtonText: data.footer.button.rightButtonText She passed away from after battling a 2 year fight with cancer. "Mark has seen almost everything up to a point, maybe the 1970s," says Art & Craft producer and director Jennifer Grausman. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many users needs. caption: data.footer.caption, Mark Landis Obituary - Tribute Archive Mark Tullos Jr., the museums director, remembers that he was dressed in black slacks, a black jacket, a black shirt with the clerical collar and he was wearing a Jesuit pin on his lapel. Partly because he was a man of the cloth and partly because he was bearing a generous gift a small painting by the American Impressionist Charles Courtney Curran, which he said he wanted to donate in memory of his mother, a Lafayette native it was difficult not to take him at his word, Mr. Tullos said. For when the forger is caught and his masterpieces come to light, the experts he was out to trick are shown publicly to have been fooled. 1) by 19th century artist Charles Courtney Curran. Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. startPoint: data.images.startPoint, The iconic red jacket she famously designed for Michael Jackson 's landmark Michael Jackson: Thriller (1983) was sold for $1.8 million at Julien's Auctions of Beverly Hills (CA) (27 June 2011). I remember the day I began tracking Landis and informing my peers on August 7, 2008. 'Art and Craft' review: Documentary profiles the strange case of a leftCredit: data.images.left.leftCredit, The principal had become suspicious and contacted Leininger, who has become the go-to researcher for all things Landis. But money was not a factor in the scheme of Mark Landis, aka Steven Gardiner, aka Father Arthur Scott, aka Father James Brantley and aka Marc Lanois, when he showed up at Loyola University in New Orleans in February of 2012.