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Gregory Wolfe on the Art and Legacy of Thomas Kinkade

April 20, 2012
|In Blog
|By Jeffrey Overstreet

Today in The Wall Street Journal, Gregory Wolfe considers the work of Thomas Kinkade: Why it appeals to so many people, what it means, what it denies.

This isn’t Wolfe’s first piece on the popular painter. His first great editorial on the subject was published in the Spring of 2002 in IMAGE. 

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