Thomas Kinkade’s village is its most recent, and most high-profile, addition. Its opening in September drew a crowd of more than 2,000. The village is, according to its marketing material, a ...

Jagdip Nirwan, a board member of the homeowners association for The Village at Hiddenbrooke, stands in the Thomas Kinkade housing development on Friday, April 13, 2012, in Vallejo, Calif.

With Kinkade’s paintings as a guide, Taylor Woodrow laid out a 101-house gated community called the Village. Streets, houses, fixtures and landscaping will epitomize Kinkade’s nostalgic style ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- Fans of Thomas Kinkade's sentimental paintings soon will be able to do more than hang them on the wall. They could hang them on the wall of a house designed to look like ...

Could it be that people have had enough of Thomas Kinkade, California's self-styled "Painter of Light," whose treacle-sweet depictions of cozy cottages in sylvan settings generated $130 million in ...

Dark Times Befall 'Painter Of Light' Thomas Kinkade Kinkade's familiar, ... "I've been carrying Thomas Kinkade for over 22 years," says Marty Brown, co-owner of the Village Gallery in Irvine.