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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- While it is true that Keane and his wife did work on the paintings for many years together (and it turned into a veritable industry at one point making them quite rich) I believe that his wife's claims were more substantial than he "worked on some of her paintings". I believe she said that they were her paintings and he signed them and that this was agreed upon by them in the beginning of their collaboration - I think because they felt he had better name recognition at that juncture(?) - I don't remember that part. Additonally I believe that she claimed that he didn't have the training he had claimed he did - at any rate she got written off as a "disgruntlyed ex-wife" but I suspect there is more there than meets the eye!(No pun intended!) Elizabeth O'Hara On Fri, 24 May 1996, Thelma Stone wrote: > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > 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 > > ********************************************************** > * Views represented are strictly personal and *DO NOT* * > * represent those of the Fort Worth Public Library. * > ********************************************************** > > > On Fri, 24 May 1996, LINDA BIEN, MONTREAL. CONCORDIA SLIDE LIBRARY wrote: > > > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > > 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., > > [log in to unmask] > > >