Bob Ross’s first TV painting goes on sale for nearly $10m

Minneapolis gallery puts A Walk in the Woods, the first of over 400 paintings Ross produced for The Joy of Painting, up for sale

Bob Ross was an artist who brought painting to the people, his works completed for PBS viewers in less than a half hour with little more than a large bristle brush, a putty knife and plenty of encouragement. It is unlikely he would have envisioned one of his works going up for sale for nearly $10m.

But that is the price a Minneapolis gallery is now asking for A Walk in the Woods, the first of more than 400 paintings Ross produced on-air for his TV series The Joy of Painting.