{"id":349289,"date":"2025-11-02T01:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349289\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T01:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:46:20","slug":"bob-ross-painting-sells-for-47500-in-towson-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349289\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Ross painting sells for $47,500 in Towson auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"text-container\">Bob Ross would\u2019ve called it a \u201chappy little surprise.\u201d <\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">A painting by the beloved TV artist sold for $47,500 at a Towson auction Friday \u2014 more than $10,000 above what auctioneers expected.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">Bidding for the painting, <a href=\"https:\/\/bid.alexcooper.com\/lots\/view\/1-BEGQUL\/bob-ross-lake-with-cabin-trees-oil\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/bid.alexcooper.com\/lots\/view\/1-BEGQUL\/bob-ross-lake-with-cabin-trees-oil\">called \u201cLake With Cabin &amp; Trees,\u201d<\/a> started at $10,000 on Friday, the auction website said. Alex Cooper Auctioneers priced the painting to likely sell from $20,000-$30,000.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">The 1987 oil painting was originally gifted by Ross to his personal friends Sidney and Dorothy Knudsen, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/bid.alexcooper.com\/lots\/view\/1-BEGQUL\/bob-ross-lake-with-cabin-trees-oil\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/bid.alexcooper.com\/lots\/view\/1-BEGQUL\/bob-ross-lake-with-cabin-trees-oil\">Alex Cooper Auctioneers<\/a>. The couple passed it down to their daughter, Arlene Alascio, who left it to the painting\u2019s current owner, her brother-in-law, Sam Alascio.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">Ross left his signature on the painting, with an inscription that says \u201cTo Sid and Dorothy, Two very special friends \u2014 wishing you both every success \u2014 Happy Painting, Bob Ross, 1987.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">The auctioneers said they will keep the buyer\u2019s information private.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">Ross was an American painter who was well known for his PBS television series, \u201cThe Joy of Painting.\u201d In the show, Ross taught viewers how to paint in a 30-minute episode, but he was most beloved by viewers for his calm and happy persona. He often painted natural landscapes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">The painting that sold Friday features a waterway, a wood cabin and a canopy of trees under a cotton candy-colored sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob Ross would\u2019ve called it a \u201chappy little surprise.\u201d A painting by the beloved TV artist sold for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":349290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[8019,648,1032,1033,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-349289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-american-football","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115477583199244277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}