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.

Thirty canvases, many created for viewers of Ross’s PBS series, “The Joy of Painting,” will be sold to benefit public television stations grappling with funding cuts. By Sopan Deb Whimsical clouds.

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 ...

American Public Television is about to get a boost from a bunch of happy little trees. The distributor announced last week that Bonhams will auction over 30 Bob Ross paintings over the next three ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I can’t think of a more meaningful way to share his works of art," said Joan Kowalski, president of Bob Ross Inc. Acey Harper/Getty Thirty of Bob Ross' scenic paintings will be auctioned off to ...

LOS ANGELES — Bonhams Auction House was a little quiet Tuesday afternoon, with an auction of American landscapes drawing few in-person attendees compared to the interest it had generated online. But ...

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, ...