From cnn [excerpt], 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 called himself the "Painter of Light," and his sentimental paintings, with their scenes of country gardens and churches in dewy morning light, were beloved by many but reviled by the art establishment.
He claimed to be the nation's most collected living artist, and his paintings and spin-off products were said to fetch some $100 million a year in sales, and to be in 10 million homes in the United States.
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I hope that means his gaunt, spectral face will now start peering out the window of every snow-covered cabin he ever painted.
His work makes me nauseous. A friend of mine who shall has a giant shitty painting of his featured prominently in his living room and it tears me up inside.
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