Margaret Keane

Margaret D. H. Keane (born Peggy Doris Hawkins, September 15, 1927) is an American artiste known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes. She mainly paints women, children, or animals in oil or unclean media. The doing achieved commercial capability through reasonably priced reproductions on prints, plates, and cups. It has been critically venerated but then criticized as formulaic and cliché. The artwork was originally credited to Keane's ex-husband, Walter Keane. After their divorce in the 1960s, Margaret soon claimed credit, which was established after a court "paint-off" in Hawaii.

A resurgence of raptness in Margaret Keane's comport yourself followed the release of Tim Burton's 2014 biopic Big Eyes. She maintains a gallery in San Francisco which boasts "the largest deposit of Margaret Keane's art in every world." In lively of the good gulf between her work's popularity and its vital lampooning, she has been called the "Wayne Newton of the art world."