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Teary, big-eyed orphans and a variety of trashy knockoffs epitomized American kitsch art as they blocked thrift stores for many years. When Adam Parfrey monitored down Walter Keane - the credited designer of the weepy waifs - for a San Diego Audience cover account in 1992, he discovered some stunning facts. Ages of lawsuits and countersuits disclosed the truth that Keane was more of a conman than an designer and that he compelled his wife, Margaret, to sign his name to her own paintings. Because of this those weepy waifs may well not have been as capricious an technology as they seemed. Parfrey's account was reprinted in Juxtapoz magazine and encouraged a Margaret Keane exhibition at the Laguna Skill Museum. Director Tim Burton made a movie about the Keanes called Big Sight, which arrived in 2014. Resident Keane is a book-length expansion of Parfrey's original article, providing amazing biographical and sociological details.
