A rare original Bob Ross painting with deep ties to Ball State University and East Central Indiana sold today for $320,000 at auction, with net proceeds from the ...

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

Public broadcasting continues to face dire funding issues across the country, but PBS hero Bob Ross is here to help. Indiana’s Ball State PBS station has partnered with auction house Bonhams Skinner ...

An original Bob Ross painting will be auctioned in support of Ball State PBS. Known as Mountain Summit, the painting was ...

"I went in Rome and came out Bob Ross." With a button-up collared shirt, classic blue jeans and his signature hairstyle, receiver Rome Odunze stepped out of a dressing room at Halas Hall April 22 ...

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A second auction of the famed 'Joy of Painting' host's works was held on Jan. 27 Acey Harper/Getty;Bonhams A Jan. 27 auction in Massachusetts of three Bob Ross paintings generated $1.27 million This ...

Three paintings by late artist Bob Ross — who taught art to viewers nationwide for more than a decade in the 1980s and early Nineties on PBS TV series, The Joy of Painting — sold for a total of $1.27 ...

"Change of Seasons," painted by television host Bob Ross in 1990, broke a record for a Ross piece sold at auction. (Courtesy of Bonhams Skinner) Some folks are now the joy-filled owners of Bob Ross' ...

I am not a painter. The most complex thing I’ve drawn is a stick figure, but I didn’t let this stop me from accepting an invitation to the Bob Ross Art Workshop & Gallery in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

"Change of Seasons," painted by television host Bob Ross in 1990, is among the pieces up for auction by Bonhams Skinner. (Courtesy of Bonhams) Fans of "The Joy of Painting" with cash to spare now have ...