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Bob Ross paintings sell for $1.2 million as Trump guts public TV

Jason Weisberger
Jan 31, 2026
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A cache of original paintings by Bob Ross just sold for $1.2 million! A tidy return on a body of work created for public television, while Public Broadcasting Service faces existential funding cuts from a political movement that has spent years sneering at the very idea of shared culture.

“To see Bob’s paintings resonate so powerfully reminds me that his…

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