Thomas Kinkade, master of the innocuous cottage paintings with warm, candle-lit windows and fluffy clouds just got upgraded with Star Wars. Watch as a batch of Stormtroopers set Kinkade’s world ablaze ...

Returning home from college one Christmas, young artist Thomas Kinkade (Jared Padalecki) is dismayed to learn that attempts to promote local tourism have failed and his mother (Marcia Gay Harden) is ...

More popular than the Egg McMuffin, more colorful than a pack of Skittles, the inspirational renderings of trademarked “Painter of Light” Thomas Kinkade have captured the hearts, minds and wall space ...

With their pastoral beauty and wonderful use of light, it's no wonder that paintings by Thomas Kinkade are among the most popular American art ever produced. Although there are tons of prints out ...

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 ...

There’s a very good chance that even if you don’t own a Thomas Kinkade painting, you’ve seen one–in a neighbor’s house, on collector plates and toys, even on air fresheners, pillows or furniture. The ...

You may think you know the whole story of kitsch master Thomas Kinkade, the self-branded “painter of light,” who sold obscene amounts of work, generated endless merch, and even offered branded ...

PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- In Thomas Kinkade's hometown, at the gallery where his art career first took off, an original painting by the self-described "Painter of Light" sat unsold for years. Buyers ...

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 ...