Billion Dollar Painter: The Triumph and Tragedy of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light
Author: G. Eric KuskeyBrand: Hachette BooksEdition: IllustratedBinding: HardcoverFormat: IllustratedNumber Of Pages: 296Release Date: 09-09-2014Part Number: 8-page photo insertDetails: The unbelievable true story of artist Thomas Kinkade, self-described “Painter of Light,” and the dramatic rise – and fall – of his billion-dollar gallery and licensing business. He was just one man, but Thomas Kinkade ultimately made more money from his art than every other artist in the history of the world combined. His sentimental paintings of babbling brooks, rural churches surrounded by brilliant fall foliage, and idyllic countryside cottages were so popular in the 1990s that one out of every twenty homes in America owned one of his prints. With the help of two partners, a former vacuum salesman and an ambitious junior accountant who fancied himself a businessman, Kinkade turned his art into a billion-dollar gallery and licensing business that traded on the NYSE before it collapsed in 2006 amid fra