Walter Keane

American plagiarist (1915–2000)

Walter Stanley Keane (October 7, 1915 – December 27, 2000) was an American painter and plagiarist. He became famous in the 1950s[1] for claiming he had painted a series of widely-reproduced paintings depicting vulnerable waifs with enormous eyes. The paintings were in fact painted by his wife Margaret Keane.

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  1. Joan Woods (1960). "Painting Keanes Are on the March". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2015-02-16.