... a sense of light and warmth at affordable prices. "His franchise earned more than $2 billion in 2000" (pg. 224). Marling is really supportive of Kinkade's work. She argues that he is a family man because he puts his wife's initials in his pictures. She also mentions that Kinkade takes after an artist by the name of Albert Bierstadt, who "bridges the gap between ... that his pieces are not authentic, so why buy one? In her last line of the review she compares Kinkade to a "male Martha Stewart" (pg. 5), someone selling something that the average person can relate to and will buy. Pohlad b...

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