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 ...

Friday saw the death of Thomas Kinkade, the self-proclaimed (and trademarked) “Painter Of Light” who sought to turn art into a mass-marketed commodity that even those who had no interest in or ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Thomas Kinkade made art that was reproduced countless times and lambasted by critics, but now galleries selling his work are reporting increased demand after the painter's ...

MORGAN HILL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2003--Media Arts Group, Inc. (NYSE:MDA) has released Thomas Kinkade's "Bridge of Hope," the artist's first painting in the highly anticipated series ...

It’s always discomforting to hear the news of a public person’s death, and I was truly saddened to hear of Thomas Kinkade’s death. As a Southern Christian, I see his work everywhere — in friends’ ...

from an accidental overdose of alcohol and prescription tranquilizers, but his heart had grown so enlarged he had been vulnerable to a fatal heart attack at any point, according to a detailed autopsy ...

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 an simple, soothing addition ...

It was a slice of Bohemia in a city of commerce, a gathering of intellectuals striking out against what they see as mindless and saccharin art. On Friday night, dozens of artists converged on a small ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Artist Thomas Kinkade, whose brushwork paintings of idyllic landscapes, cottages and churches have been big sellers for dealers across the United States, died Friday, a family ...

Painter Thomas Kinkade, whose works of luminescent, homespun scenes captivated millions of Americans even as some critics scoffed, died at his home in Northern California at age 54, a spokesman said.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Artist Thomas Kinkade, whose brushwork paintings of idyllic landscapes, cottages and churches have been big sellers for dealers across the United States, died Friday, a family ...

One of the most popular artists in America, "Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade, died Friday at his home in Los Gatos, Calif., his family said. He was 54, and his family issued a statement that his ...