For a few years in the 1960s, Margaret Keane’s paintings of mournful saucer-eyed figures — tearful waifs, haunted-looking adults, gloomy cats and dogs — seemed to be everywhere. Easily ...

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 ...

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.

Margaret Keane, best known for her eerie paintings of subjects with sad, big eyes, has died at 94. According to a report by The New York Times, she passed away on Sunday peacefully at her home in Napa ...

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.

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 ...