The world of Northern California painter Thomas Kinkade is cozy and dim. Smoke curls upward from lakeside cottages at dawn. Water glistens ... eyes from the bright summer sun with these ...

Kinkade was known for his paintings — some called them kitsch — of storybook cottages and idyllic street ... They were sold in hundreds of Thomas Kinkade Signature Galleries across the country.

cottages and churches have been big sellers for dealers across the United States, died Friday, a family spokesman said. He was 54. (Gene Blythe/AP) Thomas Kinkade, whose paintings and prints of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — 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 ...

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 ...

It feels like the kind of Christmas miracle depicted in a Thomas ... and Kinkade’s compound in Northern California. Kinkade, the so-called “Painter of Light,” created paintings of cottages ...

Thomas Kinkade, the creator of thousands of widely reproduced illustrations of cute cottages and pastel flower gardens – you would recognize his style instantly even if you didn't know his name ...