So this is that moment for me.” Kinkade is not a looming figure in the museums of America. His paintings, of pretty houses in pretty landscapes, sell mainly in mall galleries dedicated to his work.

It’s good that the Thomas Kinkade phenomenon — his empire of art galleries in shopping malls across the country; the Kinkade-themed housing development; the tsunami of tchotchkes, Christmas ...

Thomas Kinkade, whose paintings and prints of cozy scenes of domestic contentment made him perhaps the most popular artist of our time, died April 6 at his home in Los Gatos, Calif. He was 54.

Famed painter Thomas Kinkade is dead at the age of 54. Kinkade died at his home in Los Gatos of what appeared to be natural causes, David Satterfield said. His wife Nanette discussed his family ...

Kinkade, who calls himself the "Painter of Light" and is said to be the most collected living artist in America, creates images of Christmas chapels dusted in snow, of cottages next to placid ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- Fans of Thomas Kinkade's sentimental paintings soon will be able to do more than hang them on the wall. They could hang them on the wall of a house designed to look like ...

The paintings of Thomas Kinkade — all those anodyne, nostalgic magic-hour landscapes and cute cottages — felt inescapable in the 1990s and 2000s. He built a public company around his brand ...

Nation & World Obituaries Thomas Kinkade, prolific ‘painter of light,’ dies at 54 Originally published April 9, 2012 at 12:00 am Updated April 9, 2012 at 6:24 am ...