He had a style that was most commonly recognized for the glowing highlights and pastel colours that seemed to saturate the world around them.
His works were always quickly mass reproduced by his company, and then sold as prints. Driving down the value of each work, but allowing for many to share in them. It's estimated that one in every twenty American homes holds at least one of his works.
His stated goal was to become the "first million seller artist", and for this the art world reviled him, as they saw him as a commercial sell out. But no matter the critics, his fans adored his works.
Multiple of his paintings were used as the settings for movies. Lifetime especially was known for taking one of the buildings he had painted, and then writing a story for it.
Controversial though he may have been. His works definitely touched many.
I just came across about his death only today. I share in the sorrow of his family as his works has been revered here in Vermont as well. If it not for the beauty of his works, our house would be nothing but just steel floor joist hovered with trusses.
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