Sam Butcher, the soft-spoken artist whose doe-eyed, pastel-hued porcelain Precious Moments figurines ignited a global ... more than $500 million each year, a stunning amount for a man who was ...

The soft-spoken artist whose doe-eyed, pastel-hued porcelain Precious Moments figurines ignited a global ... to which he would add over the years. He’d been to Rome and seen the Sistine Chapel ...

A giftware company thought the characters had commercial potential as figurines ... it took him four years to build the 9,000-square-foot shrine.Credit...Precious Moments Foundation The couple ...

Sam Butcher sometimes struggled to explain why Precious Moments figurines, his signature artistic creation, became such a cultural phenomenon. Half a million people joined special collectors ...

those drawings were transformed into porcelain figurines. Thousands of designs have been produced over the decades, and fans of his work flock each year to the Precious Moments Inspiration Park ...

those drawings were transformed into porcelain figurines. Thousands of designs have been produced over the decades, and fans of his work flock each year to the Precious Moments Inspiration Park ...

those drawings were transformed into porcelain figurines. Thousands of designs have been produced over the decades, and fans of his work flock each year to the Precious Moments Inspiration Park ...

those drawings were transformed into porcelain figurines. Thousands of designs have been produced over the decades, and fans of his work flock each year to the Precious Moments Inspiration Park ...

those drawings were transformed into porcelain figurines. Thousands of designs have been produced over the decades, and fans of his work flock each year to the Precious Moments Inspiration Park ...