For a few years in the 1960s, Margaret Keane’s paintings of mournful saucer-eyed figures — tearful waifs, haunted-looking adults, gloomy cats and dogs — seemed to be everywhere. Easily ...

American artist Margaret Keane, whose six-decade painting ... Throughout her life, Keane’s portraits of women and animals bore the edge of Surrealism. Big eyes united every work, whether it ...

Margaret Keane, whose popular paintings of big-eyed, melancholy children became one of the most widely recognized signature artistic styles of the late 20th century — and whose long battle with ...

CA,” Keane’s Facebook page posted. The paintings became part of popular culture in the 1960s but her second husband, Walter, took credit for them. In 1970, Margaret announced she was the ...

She was 94. Keane was born Margaret Doris Hawkins on Sept. 6, 1927, in Nashville. Her first big-eye paintings emerged in the late 1950s in San Francisco’s North Beach, then a lively bohemian haven.

36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm.) MARGARET (Hawkins) KEANE (American, 1927-2022), Portrait of Sara May, 1977, oil and gold leaf on canvas, (approximate dimensions - canvas: 36 x 24 inches); signed and dated ...

Artist Margaret Keane, known for her distinctive paintings of wide-eyed figures, has died aged 94. Artist Margaret Keane, known for her distinctive paintings of wide-eyed figures, has died aged 94.

Artist Margaret Keane, known for her distinctive paintings of wide-eyed figures, has died aged 94. Keane, whose husband infamously took credit for her work before losing a high-profile legal ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Margaret Keane, who went to court to prove that her popular paintings of children with large, sad eyes were indeed hers and not her husband’s, a tale that was told ...