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It was the eyes that did it. [timid giggle] I liked the way he painted eyes and he liked mine. - Margaret Keane
" "It was the eyes that did it. [timid giggle] I liked the way he painted eyes and he liked mine.
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About Margaret Keane
Margaret D. H. Keane (born Peggy Doris Hawkins; 15 September 1927) is an American artist. Creator of the "big eyed waifs", Keane is famous for drawing paintings with big eyes and mainly paints women, children, and animals in oil or mixed media. In the 1960s, Keane became one of the most popular and successful artists of the time. During this time, her artwork was sold under the name of her husband, Walter Keane, who claimed credit for her paintings. Their life together was the subject of the 2014 Tim Burton film Big Eyes.
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Birth Name:
Peggy Doris Hawkins
Alternative Names:
Margaret D. H. Keane
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M. D. H. Keane
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Margaret Peggy Doris Hawkins Keane
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I had just announced for the first time publicly on a radio show in San Francisco that I had done all the Keane paintings and not my ex-husband. And this, um, Bill Flang of the San Francisco Examiner thought that Walter and I should appear in Union Square and have a paint-off to decide who had done the paintings, since I was—said that I had done them. So, he arranged it, and LIFE magazine as there and all the different newspapers and t.v. stations and they, uh—some of them in the audience played "High Noon"—[laughs] And, of course, Walter didn't show up.
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