What is Walter Keane?
'''Walter Stanley Keane''' (October 7, 1915 – December 27, 2000) was an [[Americans|American]] painter and [[plagiarism|plagiarist]]. He became famous in the 1950s<ref>{{cite news|url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Painting_Keanes_1960.jpg|title=Painting Keanes Are on the March|author=Joan Woods|date=1960|work=|access-date=2015-02-16|archive-date=2014-10-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006203024/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Painting_Keanes_1960.jpg|url-status=dead}}</ref> for claiming he had painted a series of widely-reproduced paintings depicting vulnerable [[waif]]s with enormous eyes. The paintings were in fact painted by his wife [[Margaret Keane]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{us-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Keane, Walter}} [[Category:1915 births]] [[Category:2000 deaths]] [[Category:American painters]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Nebraska]]