"As a mature artist who's traveled the world, I've come to wonder whether any other country has such a distinctive small town culture as we enjoy here in the USA. I have not found the same comfortable companionship anywhere else, the colorful hustle-bustle of Friday evening in the town square, the spiritual uplift of Sunday morning crowds flocking to church.

I've celebrated the distinctive comforts of small town life ever since I began to put paint to canvas. Town Square, one of my happiest early efforts, has just been released in my ongoing Archive Collection. I'm delighted by its exuberant energy. Town Square is, regrettably, not a depiction of my boyhood home. It is, instead, artistic flight of fancy. But oh, how I would enjoy having that chestnut vendor in my home town on a crisp winter evening!"

--- Thomas Kinkade