Bob Ross, also known as Robert Norman Ross, was an American painter and television host renowned for his oil paintings of landscapes. "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, ...

October 29 marks Bob Ross’s birthday. Born in 1942, the beloved late television painter would have been 82 years old today. On the occasion, we are reposting this heartwarming anecdote.

Bob Ross' paintings are locked away and barred from sale, as he stipulated before his death in 1995, making tracking down a real Ross next to impossible. On the Mount Rushmore of American public ...