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  1. Margaret D. H. Keane (born Peggy Doris Hawkins, September 15, 1927 – June 26, 2022) [1] was an American artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes. She mainly painted women, children, or animals in oil or mixed media. The work achieved commercial success through inexpensive reproductions on prints, plates, and cups.

  2. Feb 13, 2015 · Learn about the life and art of Margaret Keane, who created distinctive paintings of large-eyed figures in the 1960s. Discover how she exposed her abusive husband's fraud, inspired a movie and became a Jehovah's Witness.

  3. Jun 28, 2022 · Margaret Keane, the artist whose doleful, saucer-eyed waifs earned millions in an international kitsch craze a half-century ago, and who inspired an epic art fraud by a husband whose claims to...

  4. Jul 12, 2022 · Tue 12 Jul 2022 13.14 EDT. Last modified on Wed 19 Oct 2022 10.05 EDT. Margaret Keane, who has died aged 94, was one of the world’s most popular artists. Her paintings of children whose big...

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  5. Jun 30, 2022 · 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...

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  7. Jun 30, 2022 · Margaret Keane, a painter who was all about the eyes, dies at 94. Her portraits of children with big, sad eyes became an art-world phenomenon in the 1960s. For years, her husband falsely took...

  8. Jun 29, 2022 · Margaret Keane, the artist known for her “big eyes” paintings, has died at the age of 94. Keane was embroiled in a legal battle over the rights to her work after her husband claimed credit, a...

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