With his signature hair and gentle demeanor, painter Bob Ross is one of the most recognizable faces of the 1980s. But after spending over a decade teaching audiences across the globe how to paint on ...
This week marks the 40th anniversary of The Joy of Painting. We revisit a story about a wildly popular Bob Ross solo exhibition in Virginia. The late PBS painter's popularity continues to soar. This ...
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, ...
Witness the transformation of Bob Ross’ art studio into an intimate museum experience. From 1983 to 1988, Bob filmed The Joy of Painting in a makeshift studio in the L.L. Ball home near the campus of ...
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 ...
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 ...