Bob Ross

I assume that if you opened this thread you know who he is/was.
Has anyone seen or owned one of his paintings?
Are they worth anything?

Never saw his paintings. I was more of a Jon Gnagy man, though.

I’d be damn surprised if his paintings are worth more than the faux-canvas they’re painted on.

But they are happy little paintings.

Ebay asks around three grand, but who buys?

I can’t get a good answer from a couple minutes of Googling, but I’m seeing references to prices from a couple hundred dollars to a couple thousand, never more than eight or nine thousand. I’d be very leery of buying an original piece of art on eBay, since it’d be very hard to verify its authenticity. Apparently he donated dozens or hundreds of paintings to PBS fundraisers to be auctioned off.

That seems a little high to me, given that they’re not terribly important, original, or rare, but I guess the kitsch factor and Bob’s own celebrity push the prices up. Probably the price has more to do with owning a piece from his iconic* TV show more than the intrinsic quality of the art. I’d bet on their prices declining over the next twenty or thirty years as Ross fades from the public consciousness, and the sheer number of them gluts the market.

*For very loose usages of the word “iconic”.

I paint oils, I went through a Bob Ross phase and churned out some his landscapes paintings. His techniques are solid, which allows you to pump them out quick.

Yeah, an original Ross would be worth something for a select groupe of people, depending on the piece of course and if its authentic.

Bob Ross always struck me as a decent, less egotistical version of Thomas Kinkade. He had one of the most soothing programs ever.

I would love to own a Bob Ross painting. They are pretty and he was so kindhearted. Those paintings are a part of my childhood.

I loved watching his show when I was a kid. He had such a nice voice and his paintings were nice. I would have one of his paintings just for those reasons alone, but I wouldn’t pay a lot for it.

This all the way.

Between Bob Ross and Mister Rogers, that was some serious childhood relaxation. I would love to have one of his paintings, but I can’t imagine spending lots of money on one - it would be more for the ‘happy little trees’ memory than for them being any sort of quality painting.

I loved his show. He made me want to learn to paint. He made it look so easy and fun.

I never got the impression that Bob was trying to sell a lot of his own paintings. He always seemed more interested in getting other people to start painting their own.

I LOVED Bob Ross! If I could find one, I’d by it. BTW, in the “what art would you save” thread here, I mentioned Bob Ross.

He seems to have nice hair.

I’d pay more for a Bob Ross than I’d pay for something from Big Lots or Overstocked.com. Which isn’t saying much, I know.

Fun fact: Bob Ross was a mean, screaming, drill Sargent in the Air Force, even so he already had a love for painting.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1990-07-07/lifestyle/9007060122_1_bob-ross-joy-of-painting-pbs/2

To me there are no similarities. Not a version of anything. The only thing Kinkade wanted to sell us was Kinkade, and the notion that that alone made his work valuable. Bob Ross was selling us the idea that we could make something perfectly pleasant, and the tools to do it. If anything, Bob Ross was the before the fact anti-Kinkade.

A few months ago I got the idea to buy a Bob Ross painting, since I had such fond memories of his happy little trees. I figured he painted thousands of them, and they must be worthless, right? But I found what others found, that they sell for thousands. I guess that makes sense.

I still want one, but I need to earn some more money.

Just reading this and know he was nice guy.
he gave a painting to my dad years ago.