Margaret D. Keane - born September 15, 1927 in Nashville, Tennessee - is an artist that is very well-known for her ‘Big Eyes’ paintings in the late 70s and early 80s, which typically featured sad children as their main subjects. Today, she creates various types of artworks with themes ranging anywhere from a lone horse, to a woman sitting and reading a book. These pieces are different because they were created in the later half of her career, long after her drawn-out battle against her ex-husband, Walter Keane. Before her divorce from Walter, in 1965, many of Margaret’s paintings were of sad children with large round eyes. When she wasn’t creating one of these works of art, she was painting in a different style; one which typically featured
