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 ...

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 spokesman said. Kinkade, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Artist Thomas Kinkade once said he had something in common with Walt Disney and Norman Rockwell: He wanted to make people happy. And he won success with brushwork paintings that ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Artist Thomas Kinkade once said that he had something in common with Walt Disney and Norman Rockwell: He wanted to make people happy. And he won success with brushwork paintings that ...

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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 ...

It’s just a fact of life: Every self-respecting artist in America (and maybe beyond) has made at least one joke in her lifetime about Thomas Kinkade, the self-proclaimed "painter of light" whose ...

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 ...

A painter who claimed to be the most collected living artist in the US has died at the age of 54. Thomas Kinkade, who was best known for his paintings of idyllic landscapes, churches and cottages, ...

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 ...