With their pastoral beauty and wonderful use of light, it's no wonder that paintings by Thomas Kinkade are among the most popular American art ever produced. Although there are tons of prints out ...

Beloved by many, despised by others, Thomas Kinkade's quaint rustic scenes and his wholesome image belied a dark and tortured story that contrasts with his 'sugary' artworks. Thomas Kinkade turned ...

Typically, when a well-known artist dies, the works he leaves behind increase in value -- after all, there obviously will be no more additions to their oeuvre. So anyone who has a Thomas Kinkade ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SAN FRANCISCO — California artist Thomas Kinkade, whose brushwork paintings of idyllic landscapes, cottages and churches were big sellers for dealers across ...

You may think you know the whole story of kitsch master Thomas Kinkade, the self-branded “painter of light,” who sold obscene amounts of work, generated endless merch, and even offered branded ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was the most successful artist of his time. His sentimental, sanitized landscapes full of Christian ...

"Bad art succeeds where good art fails," might be the lesson from Sarah Jones's fascinating exploration of Thomas Kinkade's cultural impact in Dissent Magazine. In early July, the Department of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — To fans and the countless collectors who helped build painter Thomas Kinkade‘s commercial art empire, his idealized vision of the world usually served as a simple, soothing addition to ...