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.
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