Calif. artist Thomas Kinkade dies at age 54

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — 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 spokesman said.

Kinkade, 54, died at his home in Los Gatos in the San Francisco Bay Area of what appeared to be natural causes, David Satterfield said.

Kinkade's sentimental paintings, with their scenes of cottages, country gardens and churches in dewy morning light, were beloved by middlebrow America but reviled by the art establishment.

The paintings generally depict tranquil scenes with lush landscaping and streams running nearby. Many contain images from Bible passages.

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His paintings are awesome. The way different lighting changes the painting is extremely cool.
 
The artist, who not only trademarked his name but also his sobriquet, Painter of Light, had a more troubled side.


Former employees and gallery owners described him as a ruthless businessman, and in 2006, a three-member panel of the American Arbitration Assn. ordered his company to pay $860,000 for defrauding former owners of two failed Virginia galleries.


That decision was a setback for Kinkade, who had won three previous arbitration claims.


At the time, though, five more claims were pending.



Not only were his business practices called into question, but in sworn testimony and interviews, associates took exception to his personal behavior, which belied his self-avowed Christian values.


“When I got saved, God became my art agent,” he said in a 2004 video biography that championed his faith and belief in family values.



Less-than-Christian incidents included allegedly public drunkenness, heckling illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursing a former employee’s wife who came to his aid when he fell off a barstool and palming a woman’s breast at a signing party in South Bend, Ind.



During one visit to the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim in the late 1990s, he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, quipping “This one’s for you, Walt,” according to Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade’s company.


The allegations were published in a profile of the artist in The Times in 2006, and four years later, the artist was arrested outside of Carmel on suspicion of drunk driving and booked into Monterey County Jail.



The arrest occurred less than two weeks after one of his companies –- Pacific Metro of Morgan Hill -– filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.




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The artist, who not only trademarked his name but also his sobriquet, Painter of Light, had a more troubled side.


Former employees and gallery owners described him as a ruthless businessman, and in 2006, a three-member panel of the American Arbitration Assn. ordered his company to pay $860,000 for defrauding former owners of two failed Virginia galleries.


That decision was a setback for Kinkade, who had won three previous arbitration claims.


At the time, though, five more claims were pending.



Not only were his business practices called into question, but in sworn testimony and interviews, associates took exception to his personal behavior, which belied his self-avowed Christian values.


“When I got saved, God became my art agent,” he said in a 2004 video biography that championed his faith and belief in family values.



Less-than-Christian incidents included allegedly public drunkenness, heckling illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursing a former employee’s wife who came to his aid when he fell off a barstool and palming a woman’s breast at a signing party in South Bend, Ind.



During one visit to the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim in the late 1990s, he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, quipping “This one’s for you, Walt,” according to Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade’s company.


The allegations were published in a profile of the artist in The Times in 2006, and four years later, the artist was arrested outside of Carmel on suspicion of drunk driving and booked into Monterey County Jail.



The arrest occurred less than two weeks after one of his companies –- Pacific Metro of Morgan Hill -– filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.




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no surprise the basement troll has to try and smear someone, even after their death.

why are you so insecure?
 
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