David Voss is a Canadian art forger of Indigenous artworks, in particular those of the artist Norval Morrisseau, of the Ojibway Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation who has been deceased since 2007.
Voss and his team worked in an assembly line type operation that included children an in sweatshop-like conditions to produce forgeries using a "paint-by-numbers" process to create fake paintings.
[1] The forgeries were detected when forensic analysts used infrared photographic processes to discover paint-by-number-like pencil markings on the underdrawings beneath the painted surfaces.
[2] ArtNews reported that "Voss oversaw the production of thousands of artworks falsely attributed to Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau."
[9] Also charged were Linda Joy Tkachyk and Diane Marie Champagne, all from Thunder Bay, Ontario, James White of Essa Township and David P. Bremner of Locust Hill and Jeffrey Gordon Cowan of Niagara-on-the-Lake.