In January 1983, Bob Ross opened his very first episode of "The Joy of Painting" by telling the viewers, "I hope you have your brush ready and a dream in your heart." Over the course of the episode, ...

A fundraiser for public media just turned into a milestone for Bob Ross’s market. Late-night comedian John Oliver’s benefit auction of art and artifacts saw a 1987 Ross canvas fetch $1.04 million, ...

John Oliver tackled the Trump Administration's defunding of public media for his final "Last Week Tonight" episode of 2025, detailing how the decision to eliminate $1.1 billion from the Corporation ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three paintings from famously chill public television legend Bob Ross sold Tuesday for more than $600,000 at auction. The paintings were the first of 30 Ross works being sold to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It'll be a full-circle moment when a Bob Ross painting is auctioned to raise money for the Indiana station at which it was created ...

October 29 marks Bob Ross’s birthday. Born in 1942, the beloved late television painter would have been 82 years old today. On the occasion, we are reposting this heartwarming anecdote. The name Bob ...

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

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 ...

A rare Bob Ross painting sold for $320,000 to support the Muncie PBS station where the artist filmed his show.

"I can’t think of a more meaningful way to share his works of art," said Joan Kowalski, president of Bob Ross Inc. Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest team at PEOPLE. She first joined ...