Even after the couple’s separation in the mid-1960s, the Keanes continued, more or less, the ruse, until in 1970 when Margaret announced that she was the true and sole artist of the works.

But there was a backstory to it all — a nasty divorce, a courtroom paint-off and a Tim Burton movie that plumbed the story of Margaret Keane, the artist who labored in near anonymity in a ...

Margaret Keane, the artist whose paintings of wide-eyed children inspired the 2014 Tim Burton film “Big Eyes,” died Sunday at her home in Napa, California. She was 94. Her daughter told The ...

American artist Margaret Keane, whose six-decade painting career was occluded for years by her husband, who claimed to have made the works himself, died on Sunday, June 26, in her Napa Valley home ...

Artist Margaret Keane, known for her paintings of children with large sad eyes - and who had to prove in court she had created them, after her husband originally took credit - has died.