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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bob Ross died at 52 from cancer on July 4, 1995 Julie Tremaine is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared in Food and Wine, Travel + ...