Q: I have a Thomas Kinkade Grand Winter Festival collectible. When the two parts of the sculpture are fitted together, the tree lights up and plays music. The top half is supposed to rotate ...

F.F., Bethlehem, e-mail question A: Thomas Kinkade, the painter of light, ... In 1999 all the Bradford Exchange plates were assigned an “RI” rating. I see no reason to change this in 2005.

Thomas Kinkade, whose paintings and prints of cozy scenes of domestic contentment made him perhaps the most popular artist of our time, died April 6 at his home in Los Gatos, Calif. He was 54.

Kinkade, who turned out these original images and called himself the “Painter of Light,” is the subject of the new documentary “Art for Everybody,” directed by Miranda Yousef.