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 ...

Thomas Kinkade uses oil paints to create pastoral scenes of warm cottages and waterfalls, then avails himself of every digital tool in the box to market them. Kinkade, who will visit Harrisburg's ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — California artist Thomas Kinkade, whose brushwork paintings of idyllic landscapes, cottages and churches were big sellers for dealers across the country, died Friday, a family ...

HOLLAND, MI -- One woman was almost “frantic,” aching to get a piece of the legacy. When news of Thomas Kinkade’s death broke, that was the reaction Rick Nelson, owner of Moonlight Shadows Art Gallery ...

Critics who deign to comment on the titanically successful painter Thomas Kinkade usually call him a kitschmeister. But his case is not that simple. Kinkade's marketing techniques -- selling editioned ...

Exclusive: Editor Miranda Yousef makes her directorial debut with the Morgan Neville-produced documentary that premiered at SXSW 2023. Thomas Kinkade is best known for his kitschy paintings of ...