Eric Ian Hornak-Spoutz (born August 3, 1983) is an American art dealer,Tom Watts, "Harrison Township art dealer is quick study," Macomb Daily, Feb. 15, 2012Jameson Cook, "Dual depictions presented of a prominent art dealer gone bad," Macomb Daily, Feb. 14, 2017

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

Stephen Bennett Phillips, "Ian Hornak Transparent Barricades," exhibition catalogue, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Fine Art Program, Washington D.C., 2012 and museum

curator A curator (from , meaning 'to take care') is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular ins ...

. Spoutz has owned art galleries in

Detroit, Michigan Detroit ( , ) is the List of municipalities in Michigan, most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on the bank of the Detroit River across from Windsor, Ontario. It had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 United State ...

, Cape Coral, Florida,Charles Runnells, "Gallery 928 brings Picasso, Warhol and other art icons to Cape Coral," The News Press, Feb. 7, 2014

Palm Beach, Florida Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. Located on a barrier island in east-central Palm Beach County, the town is separated from West Palm Beach, Florida, West Palm Beach and Lake Worth Beach, Florida, ...

, and

Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ...

.US v. Spoutz, 16 Cr. 392: Government Sentencing Materials, Feb. 6, 2017

Early life and family

Eric Ian Hornak-Spoutz was born in

Mount Clemens, Michigan Mount Clemens is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 15,697 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the county seat, seat of government of Macomb County, Michigan, Macomb County and part of the Metro Detroit, Det ...

on August 3, 1983, to Carl Steven Spoutz, a real estate developer and Rosemary Hornak, a visual artist."Forging Papers to Sell Fake Art," Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release), April 6, 2017 Eric Ian Hornak-Spoutz's maternal uncle and namesakeDepartment of Justice, "JUSTICE, U.S DEPARTMENT OF. FBI STORY: Leadership, Integrity, Agility, Integration. S.l.: W W NORTON, 2019. was the founding Hyperrealist and

Photorealist Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another Medium (arts), medium. Although ...

visual artist, Ian Hornak. Ian Hornak's

life partner The term significant other (SO) has different uses in psychology and colloquial language. colloquialism, Colloquially, "significant other" is used as a gender-neutral language, gender-neutral term for a person's partner in an intimate relatio ...

was Julius Rosenthal Wolf,Patsy Southgate, "Ian Hornak: Creating An Art Apart," East Hampton Star, Nov. 20, 1997"Jay Wolf, 47, Producer, Casting Director and Agent," New York Times, June 14, 1976 who was a prominent American casting director, producer, theatrical agent, art collector, art dealer, and the vice president of General Amusement Corporation, then the second largest talent management agency in the world."Papers of Jay Wolf, Circa 1900 - 2009," Dartmouth College Rauner Special Collections Library"Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974, bulk 1926-1969," Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art During the 1950s and 1960s, Wolf had been the assistant director of Edith Halpert's Downtown Gallery in New York City where he became a champion of American Modernism in the visual arts. Via the bloodline of his paternal grandmother, Hornak-Spoutz is the eleventh-generation descendent of Mayflower passenger, Francis Cooke (1583-1663). He is also the thirteenth-generation descendant of captain John Marchant (1540-1592), and the tenth-generation descendant of Massasoit Sachem (1580-1661). Hornak-Spoutz's parents divorced in 1993 when he was nine years old. Following his parents divorce Hornak-Spoutz was raised by his mother, his paternal grandparents and his uncle, Ian Hornak. During the school year he lived in Mount Clemens, Michigan and many summers, and holidays Hornak-Spoutz spent with Ian Hornak at his home and studio in East Hampton, New York and at his home on the Upper-East Side of

Manhattan Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, larg ...

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

. Through his early exposure to the art world via Ian Hornak in New York, Hornak-Spoutz took an interest in art and became his uncle's studio manager in East Hampton at age 16. Elmer Walter Spoutz, Hornak-Spoutz's paternal grandfather who was a prominent Midwestern real estate developer and businessman, died when Hornak-Spoutz was eighteen in 2002 and he became the co-

trustee Trustee (or the holding of a trusteeship) is a legal term which, in its broadest sense, refers to anyone in a position of trust and so can refer to any individual who holds property, authority, or a position of trust or responsibility for the ...

of his grandfather's estate. Later in 2002 when Hornak-Spoutz was nineteen, his uncle Ian Hornak died and Spoutz became the

executor An executor is someone who is responsible for executing, or following through on, an assigned task or duty. The feminine form, executrix, is sometimes used. Executor of will An executor is a legal term referring to a person named by the maker o ...

of his estate.

Education

Hornak-Spoutz graduated from Cardinal Mooney Catholic College Preparatory School in 2001. He graduated with a Bachelor of General Studies degree with concentrations in General Business and Historical Studies from Fort Hays State University. As of 2022, he was a

graduate student Postgraduate education, graduate education, or graduate school consists of Academic degree, academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications usually pursued by higher education, post-secondary students who have ...

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

where he was pursuing a

Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Those admitted to the degree have ...

degree in

Creative Arts The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices involving creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. The arts encompass diverse and plural modes of thought, deeds, and existence in an extensive range of me ...

and

Literature Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, Play (theatre), plays, and poetry, poems. It includes both print and Electroni ...

Career

In 2003, Hornak-Spoutz opened the Eric I. Spoutz Gallery in the

Fisher Building The Fisher Building is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Michigan, landmark List of tallest buildings in Detroit, skyscraper located at 3011 West Grand Boulevard in the heart of the New Center, Detroit, New Center area of Detroit, Michig ...

in Detroit, Michigan when he was nineteen years old, which specialized in

and Hyperrealist artwork. One of the early exhibitions of the gallery was, " Lowell Nesbitt: A Retrospective" there in 2004, which was the largest display of the artist's artwork since the artist's death in 1993.""Lowell Nesbitt: A Comprehensive Retrospective Exhibit Opens at the Eric I. Spoutz Gallery in Detroit, Michigan," PRWeb.com, August 22, 2003 Hornak-Spoutz moved to

where he lived in a beachfront penthouse. Between 2007 and 2017, Hornak-Spoutz placed artwork by many artists into the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's

National Museum of American History The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center is a historical museum in Washington, D.C. It collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific, and m ...

, the Smithsonian Institution's

Archives of American Art The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 20 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washing ...

, the Smithsonian Libraries, the

Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law o ...

Prints and Photographs Division, the Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections Division, the

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, commonly known as the Federal Reserve Board, is the main governing body of the Federal Reserve System. It is charged with overseeing the Federal Reserve Banks and with helping implement the m ...

, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the National Hellenic Museum, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, the Florida State Capitol, the

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, often pronounced ; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of adva ...

, the Los Angeles County Museum, the

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the list of largest art museums, 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 painting ...

, the

Detroit Institute of Arts The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is a museum institution located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It has list of largest art museums, one of the largest and most significant art collections in the United States. With over 100 galleries, it cove ...

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

's Rauner Special Collections Library, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, The George Washington University Art Galleries, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, the Forest Lawn Museum, the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages, the Flint Institute of Arts, the Boston Children's Hospital, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the Detroit Historical Museum and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Hornak-Spoutz also curated traveling museum exhibitions throughout the United States including an exhibition at Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington D.C. that was on display during

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president in American history. O ...

's 2013 Presidential Inauguration sponsored by

Ben Bernanke Ben Shalom Bernanke ( ; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Federal Reserve, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Insti ...

, the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts,Rebecca Massie-Lane, "Three exhibitions; one day," The Hearald-Mail, Sept. 6, 2013 the Kinsey Institute,Marci Creps, "On Exhibit: Jan 19, 2014" Hoosier Times, Jan. 19, 2014 and the Anton Art Center.Maryanne MacLeod, "Art Center showcases revolutionary exhibit: Nationally celebrated Ian Hornak retrospective," Macomb Daily, Jun. 26, 2014 During the City of Detroit bankruptcy, which up until that time was the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history, Hornak-Spoutz was a media commentator for multiple media outlets, including

The Detroit News ''The Detroit News'' is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United S ...

, at various times valuing the

permanent collection"Christies lists alternatives to selling art," The Detroit News, Dec. 5, 2013 and

public art Public art is art in any Media (arts), media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process. It is a specific art genre with its own professional and critical discourse. Public art is visually and phy ...

owned by the City of Detroit including Marshall Fredericks

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

, Spirit of Detroit, and the Robert Graham sculpture, Monument to Joe Louis,"Could other assets be sold?," The Detroit News, Oct. 24, 2013 all of which was then a point of global controversy because of its potential susceptibility to liquidation for payment to the City's creditors. In 2013 Hornak-Spoutz opened Gallery 928 at The Westin Cape Coral Resort at Marina Village in Cape Coral, Florida where he exhibited the artwork of contemporary artists and masterworks by

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (;''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''"Warhol" born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol ...

, Joan Miró,

Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

and others, at one time reportedly having $20,000,000 USD worth of artwork on display.Brittany Weiner, "$20 million art exhibit on display in Cape Coral," NBC2, July 18, 2014 The gallery closed in 2014 following the suicide of Hornak-Spoutz's business partner, Theodore Eager in the gallery, and Hornak-Spoutz moved to a penthouse in the Mid-Wilshire District in

where he opened an online dealership for the sale of blue chip artwork. Hornak-Spoutz also volunteered as the curator for The Heidelberg Project in Detroit, Michigan, The Connecticut Cancer Foundation in

Old Saybrook, Connecticut Old Saybrook is a New England town, town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Connecticut, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region. The population was 10, ...

and became the curator and the global commercial representative for the estate of Jack Mitchell, who was the longest serving lead

photographer A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs. Duties and types of photograp ...

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...

in the publication's history.

Personal

Hornak-Spoutz married Natasha Gavroski in

Beverly Hills, California Beverly Hills is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. A notable and historic suburb of Los Angeles, it is located just southwest of the Hollywood Hills, approximately northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Beverly Hills ...

in 2012; they divorced in April 2018.US v. Spoutz, 16 Cr. 392: Defendant Sentencing Materials, Feb. 2, 2017US v. Spoutz, 16 Cr. 392: Defendant Sentencing Materials (Character Letters), Feb. 2, 2017 In April 2023 he became engaged to

Birmingham, Michigan Birmingham is a city in Oakland County, Michigan, Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a northern suburb of Detroit located along the Woodward Corridor (M-1 (Michigan highway), M-1). As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 censu ...

decorative arts ] The decorative arts are arts or crafts whose aim is the design and manufacture of objects that are both beautiful and functional. This includes most of the objects for the interiors of buildings, as well as interior design, but typically excl ...

dealer, Lynsie Leinenger in a suite of the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel. Hornak-Spoutz and Leinenger were married at a group wedding ceremony titled, “Totality of the heart,” in Trenton, Ohio during the Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024.

Legal

HORNAK-SPOUTZ v KAHN. On October 28, 2024, Hornak-Spoutz filed a civil complaint in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Westchester, against American artist, Scott Kahn. The complaint alleged a long term close personal friendship and professional relationship between Hornak-Spoutz and Kahn dating to 2011 which included Hornak-Spoutz's longterm representation of Kahn's artwork in Hornak-Spoutz's galleries. One such exhibition referenced was contemporaneously widely publicized in the media at Hornak-Spoutz's gallery in 2014, Gallery 928, at the Westin Cape Coral Resort at Marina Village in Cape Coral, Florida. Further alleged was that Hornak had arranged the acquisitions of Kahn's artwork into the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Schmidt Foundation Center for Art and Design at Fort Hays State University, which culminated in a large exhibition of Kahn's work at the Moss-Thorns Gallery of Art at Fort Hays State University in 2024. The complaint alleged that Hornak-Spoutz had, with Kahn's knowledge and consent, made arrangements with Johnathan Crockett, Chairman of

Philips Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), simply branded Philips, is a Dutch multinational health technology company that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, its world headquarters have been situated in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarter ...

Asia, for a $40,000,000 to $60,000,000 USD retrospective exhibition of Kahn's artwork at Philips Asia's headquarters at WKCDA Tower in the West Kowloon Cultural District in

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

. The complaint further alleged that following Hornak-Spoutz's having signed an agreement with Philips Asia for the exhibition which secured the time-slot, October 26, 2023 - November 5, 2023, targeting 50 to 60 artworks by Kahn, and following Hornak-Spoutz and Kahn's mutual planning and curation of the exhibition, Kahn, without warning and in close proximity to the opening of the exhibition, terminated and defaulted on the exhibition. The complained also alleged that, at Kahn's request, Hornak-Spoutz used Hornak-Spoutz's own personal, professional, and family connections to introduce Kahn to the senior director of the David Zwirner Gallery for the purpose of securing commercial representation of Kahn's artwork at the gallery. It was further alleged that Kahn was displeased with his then current representation at the Almine Rech Ruiz-Picasso Gallery in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

which had prompted Kahn's request to Hornak for transfer to Zwirner. Alleged in the complaint, following Hornak-Spoutz's introduction of Kahn to Zwirner, Kahn conspired with Zwirner to circumvent Hornak-Spoutz in the negotiations for obtaining representation in an effort to avoid compensating Hornak-Spoutz. The David Zwirner Gallery subsequently announced global representation of Kahn with a November 2024 debut Kahn exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery in Hong Kong. The complaint sought $7,500,000 in damages from Kahn to be awarded to Hornak-Spoutz. UNITED STATES v SPOUTZ. On February 3, 2016, Hornak-Spoutz was arrested by the Art Crime Team of the

Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic Intelligence agency, intelligence and Security agency, security service of the United States and Federal law enforcement in the United States, its principal federal law enforcement ag ...

at his penthouse in the Mid-Wilshire District of

based upon a 26-page criminal complaintU.S. v. Spoutz Complaint - US Department of Justice, Jan. 16, 2016 issued by the

United States Department of Justice The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a United States federal executive departments, federal executive department of the U.S. government that oversees the domestic enforcement of Law of the Unite ...

, the office of United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York,

Preet Bharara Preetinder Singh Bharara (; born October 13, 1968) is an Indian American lawyer and former federal prosecutor who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. As of 2025, he is a partner at the ...

."Michigan Art Dealer Arrested And Charged With Fraud For Selling Dozens Of Forged Artworks Over Five Years," Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, Feb. 3, 2016"Michigan Art Dealer Sentenced To More Than 3 Years In Prison For Defrauding Collectors Of $1.45 Million Through Sale Of Forged Artworks," Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, Feb. 16, 2017Alex Johnson, "Art Dealer Eric Spoutz Charged With Selling Dozens of Fakes of American Masters," NBC News, Feb. 3, 2016Meg Wagner, "Michigan art dealer arrested for selling fake paintings by American masters with forged letters of authenticity," New York Daily News, Feb. 4, 2016Nate Raymond, "Michigan art dealer arrested by FBI for selling forgeries," Reuters, Feb. 3, 2016Lia Eustachewich, "Art dealer con man allegedly sold dozens of forged pieces over 15 years," New York Post, Feb. 4, 2016 Hornak-Spoutz was initially arraigned at the United States Court House in

Downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is the central business district of the city of Los Angeles. It is part of the Central Los Angeles region and covers a area. As of 2020, it contains over 500,000 jobs and has a population of roughly 85,000 residents ...

, and placed on supervised release, thereafter releasing him back to the public. The government charged Hornak-Spoutz with marketing and selling the fraudulent artwork through online auction sites and auction houses. The government conceded that its allegations did not relate to Spoutz's legitimate art galleries that he owned, the artwork that he was responsible for selling and donating to museum collections, or the artwork relating to his uncle, Ian Hornak, but was confined to a separate, isolated criminal scheme. On June 3, 2016, Hornak-Spoutz pled guilty before the Honorable, Lewis A. Kaplan at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in

to one count of wire fraud related to the sale of falsely attributed artwork accompanied by forged

provenance Provenance () is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object. The term was originally mostly used in relation to works of art, but is now used in similar senses in a wide range of fields, including archaeology, p ...

documents. Dozens of character letters from Hornak-Spoutz's friends, family, colleagues and clients written on his behalf begging for leniency were presented to the court including letters from former

New York Yankees The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the Boroughs of New York City, New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Am ...

, Texas Rangers and

Cleveland Indians The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland. The Guardians compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) American League Central, Central Division. Since , the team ...

baseball player, John Ellis, American

lyrical abstraction Lyrical abstraction arose from either of two related but distinct art movement, trends in Post-war Modernist painting: * European ''Abstraction Lyrique'': a movement that emerged in Paris, with the French art critic Jean José Marchand being cr ...

co-founder Ronnie Landfield, New York artist Scott Kahn, and the executive director of The Heidelberg Project. On February 16, 2017, Hornak-Spoutz was sentenced by the Honorable Lewis A. Kaplan in

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (in case citations, S.D.N.Y.) is a federal trial court whose geographic jurisdiction encompasses eight counties of the State of New York. Two of these are in New York Ci ...

to forty-one months in the

Federal Bureau of Prisons The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is a Federal law enforcement in the United States, federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Justice that is responsible for all List of United States federal prisons, federal prisons ...

at the Federal Correctional Institution, Morgantown in

West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The United States Census Bureau, Census Bureau and the Association of American ...

and ordered to forfeit to the

United States Congress The United States Congress is the legislature, legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a Bicameralism, bicameral legislature, including a Lower house, lower body, the United States House of Representatives, ...

the $1,450,000 USD of criminal monetary gains he from the scheme and pay $154,100 USD in

restitution Restitution and unjust enrichment is the field of law relating to gains-based recovery. In contrast with damages (the law of compensation), restitution is a claim or remedy requiring a defendant to give up benefits wrongfully obtained. Liability ...

.Reuters, "Michigan Art Dealer Gets Three Years in Prison for Selling Fake Paintings," NBC News, Feb. 16, 2017"Michigan art dealer gets more than 3 years in prison for fraud," The Detroit Free Press, Feb. 16, 2017Nate Raymond, "Michigan art dealer gets 3-plus years in prison for forgeries," Reuters, Feb. 16, 2017"Art Dealer Sentenced to More Than Three Years in Prison for Selling Forged Modern Art," Art Forum, Feb. 20, 2017

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Spoutz, Eric 1983 births People from Mount Clemens, Michigan American art dealers American art historians American art curators American fraudsters 21st-century American criminals Living people Historians from Michigan