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.

Just about everyone knows who Bob Ross is. The longtime host of "The Joy of Painting" on public television was famous for his ...

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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 ...

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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 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 ...

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"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 ...