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There is a book on Walter Keane published by Johnson Meyer Publishing
Company copyrighted 1964 entitled "Walter Keane". The title page contains
only his name and a photo. The foreward says he was born in Lincoln,
Nebraska on October 7, 1920. At 15 he went to live in California with an
uncle. In 1943 he quit real estate for art. In 1945 went to Paris and
studied at Beaux Arts & the Grande Chaumiere. At the end of the introduction
by Eric Scneider, it mentions that works are in the National Museum of
Contemporary Art in Madrid, Spain - "Out After Dark" and the National
Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, Japan - "Peace on Earth". There is a
companion volume "MDH Margaret Keane" on his wife's art. I believe they
later divorced. I seem to remember reading something about her claiming that
some of the big-eyed children art under his name is actually her work.
-Thelma Stone
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On Fri, 24 May 1996, LINDA BIEN, MONTREAL. CONCORDIA SLIDE LIBRARY wrote:
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> Since you all did so well on the card playing canines perhaps someone can
> give me a quick answer to the artist of huge eyed children (often dressed
> in tatters as I recall) which you can now see in the 5 and 10. These were
> painted in the 1960s - 70s maybe and were by a person or couple named
> KEANE I believe. I am looking for biographical info on artist and location
> of works it still extant outside of Woolworth's.,
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