In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was the most successful artist ... houses owned Kinkade artwork via a painting, a calendar, a Christmas ornament, a postcard, a commemorative plate or a La-Z-boy ...

In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was the most successful artist of his time ... it was estimated that one in 20 American houses owned Kinkade artwork via a painting, a calendar, a Christmas ornament, a ...

Lampposts casting a glow over the scene. These are the soothing images – the functional equivalent of comfort food — that made artist Thomas Kinkade a fortune in the 1980s and ‘90s.

If you think you’ve never seen a painting by Thomas Kinkade, think again. The late artist, who is said to have sold more canvases than any painter in history, created a cottage industry (pun ...

It’s good that the Thomas Kinkade phenomenon — his empire ... the tsunami of tchotchkes, Christmas ornaments and decorative plates; the tens of millions of dollars he earned — is at least ...

“Thomas Kinkade had a quite outsize cultural impact with really bad art,” says the Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight in a new documentary film about the painter. “I ...

Thomas Kinkade once presided over an empire of radiantly unrealistic imagery, but his popular oeuvre reflected only a fraction of the man's identity, as Miranda Yousef's documentary reveals.

Thomas Kinkade was a popular ... collectible plates, ornaments, books, armchairs and other household treasures that flew off the shelves. A Kinkade-themed neighborhood was constructed in Vallejo ...

"There were actually other people who were painting cottages and Christmas ... ornaments, and selling them on the QVC shopping network. They also set up hundreds of faux olde worlde Thomas Kinkade ...

Thomas Kinkade turned himself into a ubiquitous brand — but there was more to him than that, a new documentary shows. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...