Bob Ross’s "Winter’s Peace" sold for $318,000 at Bonhams in Los Angeles, setting a new auction record and leading three works that totaled $662,000. The sale drew 356 bidders—more than twice the usual ...

The landscapes by the television host were sold as part of a campaign to help public television stations weather federal funding cuts. The Bob Ross painting “Winter’s Peace” (top) sold for $318,000 in ...

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in ...

The first of 30 Bob Ross paintings — many of them created live on the PBS series that made him a household name — have been auctioned off to support public television. Ross, with his distinctive afro, ...

Throughout most of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, PBS aired The Joy of Painting, a quiet art show that might’ve been lost to the annals of history if it weren’t for the magnetic host. He ...

The paintings, which both date to around 1990 or ’91, attracted five or six bidders over the course of the sale, with offers from three prospective buyers coming in at the last minute—including one ...

A “happy little” painting sold for $47,500 in Towson on Friday — well above estimates — in a rare auction of a Bob Ross original. Ross, whose soft-spoken TV lessons on “The Joy of Painting” reached ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Three paintings by beloved artist Bob Ross were sold at auction for more than $600,000 to help support American ...

Happy little trees and other curious items are bringing in big bucks for public broadcasting stations. John Oliver announced an auction to benefit local stations on the Nov. 16 season finale of his ...

My uncle Frank, now 97 years young, introduced me to artist/broadcaster Bob Ross (1942-1995) when I was a kid. Growing up, my uncle Frank was the craftsman of craftsmen. He could fix a leaky toilet, ...

The first three of 30 paintings sold in Los Angeles for a record-shattering $662,000. The rest will go up for auction in various cities throughout 2026. Ross painted many of them live on his PBS show.