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Walter Stanley Keane (October 7, 1915 – December 27, 2000) was an American plagiarist who became famous in the 1960s [1] as the claimed painter of a series of widely reproduced paintings depicting vulnerable subjects with enormous eyes. [2] The paintings are now accepted as having been painted by his wife, Margaret Keane.
Keane started drawing as a child and, at age 10, she took classes at the Watkins Institute in Nashville. [7] [8] When she was 10 years old, Keane painted her first oil portrait of two little girls, one crying and one laughing, and gave the painting to her grandmother. [9] At age 18, she attended the Traphagen School of Design in New York City ...
Big Eyes is a 2014 American biographical drama film directed by Tim Burton, written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, and starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz.It is about the relationship between American artist Margaret Keane and her second husband, Walter Keane, who, in the 1950s and 1960s, took credit for Margaret's phenomenally popular paintings of people with 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 ...
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 in the Tim Burton film Big ...
Keane and his wife owned a second residence in Laguna Beach, California. [16] Bil Keane died on November 8, 2011, at his home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, near Phoenix, at age 89. The cause of death was given as congestive heart failure. A Catholic, he was buried beside his wife in the Holy Redeemer Cemetery of Phoenix, Arizona. [1]
Gene Hackman, wife Betsy Arakawa preferred Santa Fe to Los Angeles A 2000 article in the Irish Independent newspaper revealed more details about the reclusive couple.
Her mother, Alberta, born in Hernando, Mississippi, failed sixth grade because she had to pick cotton, and had to work four jobs to support five children. [6] [7] Her father, James Thomas McGlowan, was a professor, a United Methodist minister, a civil rights worker, and a community activist who was also the first principal from 1958 to 1960 of ...