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Margaret Keane was born Peggy Doris Hawkins in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 15, 1927

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Margaret's art is seen as kitsch art. Kitsch refers to popular, tacky, low-brow, uncultivated taste. Although it has been very popular throughout the decades.

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This piece was to be shown at the New York World's Fair, but an art critic's outraged response prevented the piece from being displayed.

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Margaret's husband, Walter, took full credit for all of Margaret's paintings.

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Preview: Who was behind Keane paintings?

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Correspondent Lee Cowan talks to artist Margaret Keane, whose paintings of big-eyed waifs became ubiquitous in the 1960s thanks to her husband, Walter, who sold them under his own name; and to actress Amy Adams, who plays Margaret in a new film, "Big Eyes."

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Margaret allowed her husband to take credit for her work out of fear. After they divorced, she revealed she was the actual artist behind the famous works. In 1986, a judge ordered that they have a paint-off to determine who the real artist was. Walter refused. Margaret finished her painting in 53 minutes.

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Margaret Keane, Painter Behind Tim Burton’s ‘Big Eyes’ | KQED Arts

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Margaret Keane, known for her ubiquitous paintings of wide-eyed children, is the subject of Tim Burton's new film "Big Eyes." KQED Arts sat down with the 87-year-old to hear firsthand about what it was like to live a lie in the shadow of her ex-husband and how she feels about seeing her life played out on the big screen.

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Despite some harsh criticism amongst the art world, Keane's work was some of the most popular and commercially successful of her time. Although her husband was also still taking all of the credit for her work.

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Keane was commissioned by celebrities like Natalie Wood...

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and Joan Crawford.