What happened to Bob Ross?
Bob Ross, full name Robert Norman Ross, was an American painter and television personality whose popular PBS television show The Joy of Painting (1983–94) made him a household name as the painting teacher to the masses. Ross grew up in Orlando, Florida. Ross enlisted in the United States Air Force at the age of 18…
Bob Ross, full name Robert Norman Ross, was an American painter and television personality whose popular PBS television show The Joy of Painting (1983–94) made him a household name as the painting teacher to the masses.
Ross grew up in Orlando, Florida.
Ross enlisted in the United States Air Force at the age of 18 after finishing one year of high school and working as a carpenter with his father.
In the early 1960s, while stationed in Alaska, he took his first painting class at a United Service Organizations club.
However, he learned the wet-on-wet (alla prima) oil painting technique that would launch his career from television painting instructor Bill Alexander, whose show, The Magic of Oil Painting, aired on PBS from 1974 to 1982
What happened to Bob Ross?
Ross, a cigarette smoker for the majority of his adult life, expected to die young and suffered from a variety of health issues throughout his life.
He died on July 4, 1995, in Orlando, Florida, at the age of 52, from lymphoma complications
