Margaret Keane, a painter who was all about the eyes, dies at 94
For a few years in the 1960s, Margaret Keanes paintings of mournful saucer-eyed figures tearful waifs, haunted-looking adults, gloomy cats and dogs seemed to be everywhere. Easily recognizable with their big expressive eyes, her pictures were adapted into posters, plates, figurines and postcards, sold on racks at Woolworths while the originals were exhibited