{"id":313340,"date":"2025-11-25T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313340\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:34:08","slug":"bob-ross-1986-painting-bought-for-over-1-million-in-support-of-public-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313340\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Ross’ 1986 Painting Bought For Over $1 Million In Support of Public Broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Ross, prolific daytime television painting instructor who charmed the world with his serene monologues, continues to make the world a better place 20 years after his death. His estate recently sold one of his paintings at an auction to support PBS<\/a> and public media \u2014 and the work of art fetched over $1 million.<\/p>\n

On last week\u2019s 2025 finale of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, Oliver asked the Bob Ross estate to auction off one of the artist\u2019s paintings. \u201cCabin at Sunset,\u201d which the iconic painter made on his PBS series \u201cThe Joy of Painting\u201d during season 10 in 1986, ended up selling for $1,044,000 after an incredible 35 bids.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first of Ross\u2019 paintings that have sold in support of PBS, also known as the Public Broadcasting System, which has been stripped of nearly all its funding by the Trump administration. In early November, Bonhams Los Angeles auctioned off three of Ross\u2019 other paintings, also made on his show, to support American Public Television. <\/p>\n

Bonhams sold Ross\u2019 1993 painting \u201cWinter\u2019s Peace\u201d for $318,000, and the 1990 paintings \u201cCliffside\u201d and \u201cHome in the Valley\u201d sold for $229,100 and $114,800 respectively. Those three paintings were, according to Variety<\/a>, part of a group of 30 works by Ross that will be sold over the next year in support of American Public Television and their mission to financially support public TV stations nationwide. <\/p>\n

Oliver\u2019s auction \u2014 which includes many other cool and wacky items like a chance to meet Oliver in NYC, a screen-worn jockstrap that belonged to Russell Crowe (??), and wax versions of various presidents \u2014 raised nearly $1.54 million for the Public Media Bridge fund, which will assist public media nationwide in securing the funds necessary to keep stations going in the aftermath of the Trump admin\u2019s decision to effectively close down the Corporation for Public Broadcasting after eliminating $1.1 billion from their overall budget. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve actually accumulated a bunch of weird artifacts on this show over the years that we could definitely auction off to raise some much needed money,\u201d Oliver said on the finale episode. \u201cI am proud to announce Last Week Tonight\u2019s first ever auction in aid of public media. This is real!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo by Acey Harper\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob Ross, prolific daytime television painting instructor who charmed the world with his serene monologues, continues to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-313340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}