Hometown Bridge ("Hometown Memories V")

** Thomas Kinkade **
Hometown Bridge
("Hometown Memories V")
Artist Proof Limited Edition

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Hometown Bridge ("Hometown Memories V")
Displays a sturdy brick bridge whos structure was inspired by a photo from Thom's collection of 19th century materials. The bridge evokes a solidity of Thom's connection with the past. This is the fifth painting in Thom's Hometown series. The other 5 in the series are ~~ Hometown Lake, Hometown Chapel, Hometown Evening, Hometown Morning, and Hometown memories.
Hometown Bridge features 4 hidden N's in tribute to his wife, Nanette.
++++ Limited Edition Artist Proof (A/P) Lithograph
++++ Certificate of Limitation and Authenticity included
++++ Signed with a forgery-proof DNA Matrix signature
++++ Only 1170 Artist Proofs of this edition were produced.
++++ Serial Number 43/1170
++++ Image Size 18" x 27"
++++ Printed on luminous heavy grade anti-acid archival paper that will last for generations!
++++ Elegantly Framed and Matted ~~Ready to hang!
Frame Size 28" x 37"
++++ Brass Plaque with the legend "Hometown Bridge"
++++ Tom created this painting in 1997
++++ Theme: landscape, cottages, bridge , forest, horse and carriage, sunset.

+++++ And this is what Thomas Kinkade said about this work +++++
"My Hometown Memories collection fondly revisits my idyllic childhood and I have often found that the heart and emotions of the boy seem to blend with the mind and sensitivities of the adult artist.
That's especially true of Hometown Bridge, fifth in the series. In my earliest memories, bridges were often the focal point of adventure and thrilling play. I remember still the giddy delight of what seemed a climb to great heights, the reckless plunge into chill mountain waters, the joy of fishing, cavorting under the shadow of many bridges.
As a maturing artist, I recognize deeper meaning within bridges, those ravine spanning passages we make in life: graduations, first love, marriage, the birth of a child.
~~Thomas Kinkade

"Thomas Kinkade, The Painter of Light has sold more canvasses than ~~ Claude Monet, Rembrandt, Renoir, Edouard Manet, Vincent Van Gogh. Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, Paul Gauguin COMBINED. He is America's, and the World's, most collected living artist. He is to Art, what Henry Ford was to automobiles." ("60 minutes "~~ CBS)

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This canvas was master highlighted under the direct supervision of Thom and has an additional sketch hand drawn by Thom on the back.
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~~~Before they were known as the "Painter of Light" and the "Creator of Dinotopia," Thomas Kinkade and James Gurney were known the "Hoisters," two 21-year old grimy hobo artists crossing America by freight train. "Hoisting" is a term they coined to refer to a sketching adventure.
~~~Thomas Kinkade and James Gurney first met at age 17 as freshman college roomates at the University of California, and then later as fellow students at Art Center in Pasadena. They worked together as background painters on Ralph Bakshi's Fire and Ice, and as co-authors of the instructional book The Artist's Guide to Sketching (Watson-Guptill, 1982).
~~~They jumped into a boxcar in the Los Angeles rail yard and head east. To raise money they did marker sketches of bar patrons, usually by the light of cigarette machines or neon beer signs. They knocked on doors offering to do house portraits for $10.00. They slept in graveyards, on rooftops, and alongside rumbling diesel engines. At one point they were kicked off the train at gunpoint by the police department of Willard Ohio. They had been spotted trying to fly a kite from the top of the train car moving at 60 miles an hour.
~~~When they reached New York, they couldn't afford a hotel, so they slept on a burnt-out pier on the west side, where the tidewater lapped against their portfolios and gave their drawings a fishy smell. Dressed in gas station uniforms that said "Jim" and "Tom" they visited publishers offices to try to sell their idea for the sketching book. They had written the outline on paper placemats from a Burger King on the Upper West Side.
~~~ Today an original Thomas Kinkade oil painting can sell for $500,000