Margaret Keane

Margaret D. H. Keane (born 1927) is an American artist. She is a painter, who mainly draws women and children in oil or mixed media. Her works are recognizable from the oversized, doe-like eyes of the children that are depicted in her drawings.

She is portrayed by Amy Adams in the 2014 film Big Eyes, directed by Tim Burton, a Keane art collector who once commissioned the artist to paint his then-girlfriend Lisa Marie in the 1990s.

From "Style; An Eye for an Eye" By Amy M. Spindler Published: May 23, 1999, the New York Times:

"Her paintings may be a perennial punch line for the Woody Allens of the world, but they sell at auction and at the Keane Eyes Gallery in San Francisco for as high as six figures. As Andy Warhol said to Life in 1965:

I think what Keane has done is just terrific. It has to be good. If it were bad, so many people wouldn't like it.

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• Official site, Wikipedia,the Artist Margaret Keane, Vindicated in Tim Burton's Film New York Times, 18 December 2014, The big-eyed children: the extraordinary story of an epic art fraud The Guardian, 26 Oct 2014, "My Life as a Famous Artist", Awake!, July 8, 1975, Big Eyes and All: The Unofficial Biography of Margaret Keane Jennifer Warner, LifeCaps. BookCaps Study Guides, Mar 19, 2013. "Studied at Watkins Art Institute in Nashville; the Art Students League, and the Thraphagen School of Fashion in New York age 18."