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 ...

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 ...

VALLEJO, Calif. — The quiet lanes and gentle vistas of Thomas Kinkade’s paintings beguile the faithful. Reproduced on calendars and coffee cups, in prints and on wallpaper, it’s a gauzy, weightless ...

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 ...

PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- In Thomas Kinkade's hometown, at the gallery where his art career first took off, an original painting by the self-described "Painter of Light" sat unsold for years. Buyers ...

In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was the most successful artist of his time. His sentimental, sanitized landscapes full of Christian motifs and storybook cottages, some of which were lit with tiny LEDs ...

The Daily Beast has a long (3,700-word) piece on the legacy of Thomas Kinkade today, “The Drunken Downfall of Evangelical America’s Favorite Painter.” That’s actually a fairly flat-footed title.

That's because a group of artists who studied under his tutelage are producing paintings which so closely resemble Kinkade's technique that it's nearly impossible to tell them apart from his original ...

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 ...

Artist Thomas Kinkade unveils his painting, “Prayer For Peace,” at the opening of the exhibit “From Abraham to Jesus,” in Atlanta in 2005. Kinkade, whose brushwork paintings of idyllic landscapes, ...

The battle over world-famous artist Thomas Kinkade’s estate is getting nastier. His girlfriend has produced barely legible, handwritten notes she claims Kinkade wrote, giving her the keys to his Monte ...