Necessity is the mother of invention. In the weeks leading up to Christmas 1977, Maryanne Kinkade has fallen behind in her mortgage payments and is about to lose her small house in Placerville ...

Joy Behar broadcasted live from a Thomas Kinkade painting for an interview ... unintentionally hilarious Christmas set! The program debuted new scenery on Thursday's show, with Christmas trees ...

Sometime after Coca-Cola (but before Thomas Kinkade) decided what an American Christmas should look like, artist Ralph Hulett was designing Christmas cards. The angular, modernist cartoony ...