Walter Keane

Walter Keane

Walter Stanley Keane (October 7, 1915, in Lincoln, Nebraska – December 27, 2000, in Encinitas, California) was an American artist working in San Francisco. He gained fame as a painter who, together with his wife Margaret Keane, produced a large number of kitsch paintings, characterized by large-eyed waifs.

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