This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The painter of sad-eyed children with wide black eyes, Margaret Keane was discovered in the 1970s by Curator Tyler Stallings of the Laguna Art Museum, who first saw her work when K-mart sold cheap reproductions.
She divorced her second husband, Walter, in 1965, who claimed he had done the paintings which were signed "Keane," but a trial before a judge settled that discussion when the judge asked each of them to draw a picture. She did so readily, and her husband declined.
Margaret D. H. Keane was born in 1927 in Tennessee and makes her home in California.
She became a Jehovah's Witness in 1972 after her divorce and briefly moved to Hawaii.
Public collections:
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid; The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City; Musee Communal Des Beaux-Arts, Bruges; Tennessee Fine Arts Museum, Nashville, Tennessee; Brooks Memorial Museum, Memphis, Tennessee; Hawaii State Capitol, Honolulu; The United Nations, New York City and others.
Solo Shows:
The Brussels Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, by special invitation of the Belgian government; Tokyo American Cultural Center in Tokyo, sponsored by the U.S. State Department; National Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid and galleries in New York, Chicago, Honolulu, Houston, San Francisco and Beverly Hills, among others.
She was named a Fellow of The Society of Western Artists after exhibiting in three Annual Juried Shows in the M.H. De Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco.
Sources include:
artcorporationofamerica.com
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