Thomas Kinkade stopped painting under the brush name Robert Girrard’ in early 1990 at about the same time he entered into a business relationship with Ken Rausch to publish Thomas Kinkade works under an entity called Lightpost Publishing Company. Thom and Ken planned substantial promotion of the Kinkade name and Thom told George that the venture with Ken Rausch would not leave him time to continue to paint Girrard’ canvases.