A signed work made by the artist Bob Ross for the first episode of his popular show The Joy of Painting has hit the market with a staggering list price of more than $9.8 million.

Bob Ross’s “The Joy of Painting" debuted on public access television in 1983 and ran for 31 seasons – more than 403 episodes – until 1994.

Sarah Stroll, an executive assistant at Bob Ross, Inc., the official structure behind the iconic PBS painting instructor, sorts through a stack of Ross paintings on October 15, 2018 in Herndon, VA.

If you love Bob Ross and if you have $10 million, his first-ever painting can be yours. The legendary painter’s signed work of art, “A Walk in the Woods,” is up for auction for $9,850,000 at ...

At 18, Ross enlisted in the United States Air Force and was stationed in Alaska. At some point while serving in the military, Ross started painting, producing works inspired by the Alaskan landscapes.

Bob Ross painted A Walk in the Woods on-air in 1983. Modern Artifact That’s the price tag for the artist’s landscape A Walk in the Woods, the very first painting created by Ross during the ...

Ross died of complications from lymphoma on July 4, 1995. His hit public-access art instruction show, The Joy of Painting, had ended a little over a year prior, after airing a total of 403 episodes.