Even as Americans were buying her “Big Eyes” art from coast to coast in the 1960s, even as Andy Warhol was praising her canvases as “terrific,” and even as Margaret Keane was becoming wealthy from her ...
Margaret Keane, the artist whose paintings of wide-eyed children inspired the 2014 Tim Burton film “Big Eyes,” died Sunday at her home in Napa, California. She was 94. Her daughter told The New York ...
Margaret Keane sighs softly and shifts uncomfortably in her seat. She's just been asked to describe what she felt the first time she saw "Big Eyes," the new Tim Burton film about her life and her art ...
Forget Abscam — this was the ultimate American hustle. In the early 1960s, flamboyant Bay Area artist Walter Keane was an art-world smash, hawking kitschy “big eyes” paintings on everything from ...
Artist Margaret Keane, famous for her “Big Eyes” paintings, died at the age of 94 due to heart failure, according to the New York Times. Born Peggy Doris Hawkins, Keane grew up unable to hear properly ...
For years, they were impossible to miss — the images of the doleful, sad-eyed children seemingly hanging everywhere, from museums to discount stores. Though art critics were unimpressed, Americans ...
Amy Adams got the ultimate seal of approval for her portrayal of artist Margaret Keane in the upcoming film Big Eyes-- from Margaret herself. "[Amy] portrayed exactly how I was feeling," Margaret told ...
Renowned artist Margaret Keane died on Sunday at her home in Napa, California, her official Facebook page confirmed. She was 94. "We’re sad to announce that Margaret Keane, ‘The Mother of Big Eyes, ...
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 her ...