First Day of Spring!

Thomas Kinkade, Untitled, Colorful Landscape, 1976. Oil, 8 x 10 inches. ©️Nanette Kinkade Family Trust.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: “Untitled, Colorful Landscape”, is an early work that already hints at elements that would continue to intrigue Thomas Kinkade throughout his career. The vivid pink tones and orbs here standing in for rounded bushes reveal his early fascination with light, shape, and atmosphere.

Even in this formative piece, there is a playful stylization of the natural world. The landscape feels imagined as much as observed, a space where color and form are heightened to evoke mood rather than strict realism.

Here, nature is not simply observed, but reimagined—capturing the spirit of spring as a season of color, renewal, and gentle transformation.