A painting Bob Ross created in Muncie, Indiana, set an auction record last week with the help of TV show host John Oliver. “Cabin at Sunset” was sold for $1,044,000 through an auction by HBO’s “Last ...

Bob Ross was a legendary painter whose art was mimicked for years by television audiences on PBS. As original paintings by Ross have been notoriously hard to find, one recent sale has piqued the ...

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 ...

Happy little trees and other curious items are bringing in big bucks for public broadcasting stations. John Oliver announced an auction to benefit local stations on the Nov. 16 season finale of his ...

Article Summary Last Week Tonight's auction set a new $1 million record for a Bob Ross painting to support public media. John Oliver highlighted public media’s funding crisis after Congress cut $1.1 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations ...