The Thomas Kinkade Archive Collection
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Town Square Most of our lives are lived in the company of friends and neighbors. There is a pleasure to cities and to rural retreats, but no habitation seems quite so comfortable to Thomas Kinkade as the town square. "I feel completely at home in the heart of a small town," he muses, "just as evening falls, when people who've left work hustle about to do their shopping and complete their errands, so they can get home for dinner." Very likely, the painter's love of small town life hearkens back to his boyhood in Placerville, a charming rural village in northern California where life was sweet and simple. Perhaps that's why scenes like Town Square seem always to have a nostalgic feeling. Indeed, the artist delights in putting horse-drawn carriages and antique cars on the gaslit streets; in dressing the women in quaint costumes that remind us of a simpler time; in placing vendors of roasted chestnuts on the corners. It's winter in Town Square, the season when we have most need of kindness and companionship; the season when fond memory provides the sweetest comfort. We hope that this visit to the artist's past will provide you with the comfort of his warmly human artistic vision. |
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Howard Vessell-Owner