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, ...

Late-night comedian John Oliver has sold off a painting by beloved TV painter Bob Ross to help raise money for public media battered by cuts under the second MAGA administration. Ross’s 1986 work ...

TUPELO • In the United States and globally, there are 3,594 people who have become Certified Ross Instructors (CRI). That’s Bob Ross, for the unversed. Looked a bit on the goofy side; big, permed hair ...

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 ...

Bob Ross was a legendary painter whose art was mimicked for years by television audiences on PBS. As original paintings by Ross have been notoriously hard to find, one recent sale has piqued the ...

Thirty Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned to help public TV stations hit by federal cuts. Sales could raise up to $1.4 million. Congress eliminated $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting ...

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.

Certified Ross Instructor Faye Dasher leads a Bob Ross Paint-Along at TwitchCon in September 2019. Bob Ross is an enduring household name, thanks to his unshakeable, wholesome wit and his pure belief ...

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 ...