Between 1983 and 1994, almost everyone knew that the one place to go for free, top-tier painting lessons was PBS' "The Joy of Painting." Hosted by beloved Air Force veteran Bob Ross, the show was more ...

Robert Norman Ross, a beloved TV personality with a paintbrush perpetually in hand, crafted a public persona of gentleness with his soft voice and catchphrases such as "We don't make mistakes, we have ...

Bob Ross, "A Walk in the Woods" (1983), oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches (all images courtesy Modern Artifact) The permed painter, who died in 1995, continues to hold the title as one of the world's ...

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 ...