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 + ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Nicholas Hankins paints an evening thunderstorm. Nicholas Hankins paints an evening thunderstorm that calls back to Bob Ross's final episode of The Joy of Painting for inspiration; a dazzling sunset ...

Thirty canvases, many created for viewers of Ross’s PBS series, “The Joy of Painting,” will be sold to benefit public television stations grappling with funding cuts. By Sopan Deb Whimsical clouds.

Just about everyone knows who Bob Ross is. The longtime host of "The Joy of Painting" on public television was famous for his peaceful landscapes populated with what he called "happy little trees" as ...

This summer marks 30 years since the painter and pop culture icon Bob Ross died, but like his beautiful landscapes, his legacy lives on. In a 1988 episode of The Joy of Painting, Ross recalled a fan ...