Robert (Bob) Thomas Ross, Sr., born April 3, 1949, in Nashville, Tenn., passed away peacefully on August 23, 2025, in Fayetteville, Ark., at the age of 76. Bob was the son of Thomas Franklin Ross and ...

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Throughout most of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, PBS aired The Joy of Painting, a quiet art show that might’ve been lost to the annals of history if it weren’t for the magnetic host. He ...

LOS ANGELES — Bonhams Auction House was a little quiet Tuesday afternoon, with an auction of American landscapes drawing few in-person attendees compared to the interest it had generated online. But ...