Tag Archives: visual artists

Posthumous Claims Over American Pop Artist Robert Indiana: Everything You Need To Know So Far

Posted on: July 31, 2019 by Stephanie Drawdy

In 1961, when he was in his thirties, American Pop Artist Robert Indiana stencilled a call for peace from Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha into his painting, The Calumet.  Regrettably, as Indiana was passing away last year at his home in Maine, his world was anything but peaceful. Indiana’s legacy and art had become entangled in […]

Big Eyes: An IP perspective?

Posted on: January 6, 2015 by Alexander Herman

The new Tim Burton film, Big Eyes, was released over the holidays. It tells the story of American painter Margaret Keane (née Hawkins), whose works for the most part depicted young waif-like girls with enlarged, often tearful, eyes. Throughout the 1960s, as the paintings became increasingly popular, Margaret’s husband, Walter, would pass them off as his own. The paintings […]