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Cottage Gallery
Cottage Gallery was an art gallery that was located in
Carmel, California. It was owned and operated by George
Artists Represented by Cottage
Goff. It opened in November 1984, and closed in 2001. The Gallery
significance of the Gallery is primarily due to the involve-
1. Tom Browning
ment of mass-production artist Thomas Kinkade who was
2. Lindsay Dawson
a friend of Mr. Goffs. Mr. Kinkade suggested the name,
3. Robert Girrard (a.k.a. Thomas Kinkade)
Cottage Gallery, because of Carmel’s quaint look and be-
4. Thomas Kinkade
cause of the actual building that the Gallery was locat-
5. John Terelak
ed in had a pseudo cottage feel. The Gallery was locat-
6. Barry Thomas
ed at the corner of Sixth and Mission. In addition, Mr.
7. Edward Ward
Kinkade also designed the Gallery’s logo which appeared
8. Sha-Kong Wang
on the main wood sign outdoors, all stationary and sec-
9. Edward Glafke
ondary collateral material. Cottage Gallery was one of the
first galleries in which Mr. Kinkade started showing his
fine art paintings in. Mr. Kinkade also produced paint- References
ings under a “brush name” of Robert Girrard. Cottage
1. The faqs page at Girrard.com
Gallery was the only gallery that showed the “Robert Gir-
rard” paintings of Kinkade. For decades there were on-
ly a handful of people who knew that Robert Girrard
and Thomas Kinkade were one and the same. The gallery
mostly showed original oil paintings by living artists.
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