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William Thomas Kinkade III (January 19, 1958 – April 6, 2012) [2] [3] was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. [3] He is notable for achieving success during his lifetime with the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products by means of the Thomas Kinkade Company.
The home was featured in a Thomas Kinkade painting, Victorian Christmas. [5] Kinkade, who grew up in Placerville, felt the house was the kind that "begged to be painted"; he placed it in an idealized turn of the 20th century Christmas scene.
Cottage Gallery was an art gallery that was located in Carmel, California. It was owned and operated by George Goff. It opened in November 1984, and closed in 2001. The gallery mostly showed original oil paintings by living artists. Its significance arose primarily from the involvement of artist Thomas Kinkade, a friend of Goff's. Kinkade ...
Some scholars have taken this possibility seriously: In 2004, the gallery at California State University, Fullerton, mounted a huge exhibition of Kinkade's paintings called Heaven on Earth, as a ...
Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage is a 2008 Christmas biopic directed by Michael Campus, the first film he had directed in more than 30 years. It stars Jared Padalecki as painter Thomas Kinkade and features Peter O'Toole , Marcia Gay Harden and Aaron Ashmore .
Wessels was an artistic mentor to notable American painter Thomas Kinkade. Wessels died on July 23, 1982. [5] His artwork is in the permanent collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, [7] the Oakland Museum of California, [8] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. [9]
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The concrete Brutalist structure—one of the most inventive buildings in that style, with its fan-shaped procession down a spiral of semi-open galleries—was deemed seismically unsafe in 1997, and iron braces were added in 2001 to improve safety. In 1999, the Pacific Film Archive moved to a temporary building across the street.