So is the gist of this story that Churchill copied other's work and sold it as his own? Or did he copy it and hang it in his home? Or both?
I do not have the patience or the energy to plod thru a 500+ post thread.
I saw the film on O'Really showing Churchill acting like an A$$ with the TV reporter.
Yes, don't know if he has his own forgeries hanging in his home or not but wouldn't be surprised.
He reversed the one picture in question that brought the issue up. That FR thread I linked has others that have been found originally done by somebody else that Churchill copied and signed his name to.
Somebody on the thread posted that copying artwork in the public domain is done all the time by artists and is no problem. But copying a modern artist is a whole different story. And a poster on wretchard's blog stated that copying American Indian artwork or artifacts and passing them as genuine is a federal crime, although I have no idea if that's true.
Churchill also became violent and physically assaulted the News4 cameraman or reporter who tried to ask him about the story. The transcript of the incident is on wretchard's blog Belmont Club.