A rare Bob Ross painting titled 'Mountain Summit' is being auctioned to support Ball State's PBS station in Muncie, Indiana.

Three original paintings by beloved TV artist Bob Ross sold for more than $600,000 at auction to benefit public broadcasting after stations were decimated by the Trump administration’s funding cuts.

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

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.

LOS ANGELES — 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 benefit ...

A pair of Bob Ross paintings sold for double and triple their estimated selling prices at a recent auction — shattering sales records for the mild-mannered late artist. Two oil-on-canvas works from ...

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, ...

Change of Seasons (1990) led the sale, bringing in $787,900, more than 13 times its $60,000 high estimate. Painted on the 11th episode of the series’ 20th season, the landscape frames a surging river ...

Today, on July 4, 2026, marks the 31st anniversary of Bob Ross's death. The American painter, television host, and arguably ...

"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 ...