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 ...

(CBS News) Thomas Kinkade, known as the "Painter of Light" is one of the top-selling artists ever. It's estimated that his paintings are in one out of every 20 American homes. Kinkade died in April, ...

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 ...

The exhibition opens December 1 at McLennon Pen Co. Gallery in Austin, Texas. Thomas Kinkade, Memories of Christmas, Seasons of Light II (2001). Courtesy of the Kinkade Family Foundation and McLennon ...

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 ...

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.

Thomas Kinkade, “Painter of Lite”? In a letter e-mailed to his licensed gallery owners this week, the artist accused “disgruntled ex-dealers” and a former employee of launching “media attacks” on him.

(AP) SAN JOSE, Calif. - Thomas Kinkade's widow and girlfriend are facing off in court over who will be executor of the late artist's $66.3 million estate. Amy Pinto-Walsh, who was living with Kinkade ...

SAN JOSE — Despite a security guard posted around-the-clock inside the gates of the late Thomas Kinkade’s Monte Sereno home, his live-in girlfriend who claims half the artist’s fortune believes she is ...

The original Thomas Kinkade Gallery in Placerville, shown in 2006, helped launch the extraordinary career of the late popular artist, but it is now set to close. The store’s operators announced the ...