Birth of a City is one of the first published paintings of Thomas Kinkade.   Depicts the famous Yukon town of Dawson during the height of the northern gold rush, around 1898.  Thom took a small plane and toured the Alaska region.  While there, he painted three paintings: Dawson, Birth of a City, and Moonlight on the Riverfront.  As payment for the trip, he gave the pilot Dawson, which the pilot sold a few years later for ten thousands of dollars.  Now, Media Arts Group, Inc. owns the original.