Margaret Keane is an American artist. She is an illustrator and painter, and mainly draws women and children in oil or mix-media. Her works are instantly recognizable (although often imitated) from the doe-eyed children that are depicted in the drawings. Margaret D. H. Keane was born 1927 in Tennessee, a state in the Bible Belt. Margaret herself attributes her deep respect for the Bible and inspirations of her artwork to the relationship with her Methodist grandmother. She eventually became a Jehovah's Witness, which in her own words, "changed her life".