As admirers await an autopsy report, revealing to the world how a 54-year-old man dies in his sleep of “natural causes,” we might pause to wonder about Thomas Kinkade, his work, and the many who have ...

When describing his painting ‘Candlelight Cottage,’ the late Thomas Kinkade said its ‘candlelight has a cozy, intimate quality — especially when it’s suffused in the soft mist of this fine English ...

The Christmas cottages have dimmed their lights while millions of little azaleas droop their Pepto-pink heads. Thomas Kinkade, king of landscape kitsch and self-billed Painter of Light™, has fallen ...

Returning home from college one Christmas, young artist Thomas Kinkade (Jared Padalecki) is dismayed to learn that attempts to promote local tourism have failed and his mother (Marcia Gay Harden) is ...

Thomas Kinkade, master of the innocuous cottage paintings with warm, candle-lit windows and fluffy clouds just got upgraded with Star Wars. Watch as a batch of Stormtroopers set Kinkade’s world ablaze ...

News of Thomas Kinkade’s death arrived on the same day I received in the mail a vintage teacup on which I had spent a ridiculous amount of money. It has a cottage painted on it. Kinkade, whose work ...

Stormtroopers set cutesy cottages aflame in a genius new mashup called “Wars on Kinkade.” Some genius named Jeff Bennett has unleashed the full force of the Dark Side on the Painter of Light’s treacly ...

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 ...

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 ...

For most aficionados of art, Kinkade’s nostalgic paintings, bearing such titles as The Blessings of Spring, Candlelight Cottage or Hometown Evening and typically embellished with lavish daubings of ...

Thomas Kinkade, the self-proclaimed “Painter of Light,” died April 6 of what appear to be natural causes at his home in Los Gatos, Calif. He was 54. The painter, who claimed to be the most-collected ...