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, ...

Thanks to a TV-friendly style and amicable persona, Bob Ross endeared himself to generations of TV viewers on his show The ...

Bob Ross is most widely known for his curly afro and “happy accidents” as the host of The Joy of Painting, a half-hour instructional television show that ran for over a decade from 1983 to 1994.