Bonhams will offer 30 original paintings by Joy of Painting host and American artist Bob Ross (1942-1995) in collaboration with American Public Television, throughout a series of sales beginning this month through 2026.  

The first auction will take place on Tuesday, Nov.  11, in Los Angeles, which will feature three of Ross’ paintings, as part of Bonhams’ California & Western Art sale. The remaining 27 works will be offered throughout 2026 at Bonhams salerooms in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles. All works are being sold on behalf of American Public Television, which has pledged to direct 100% of its net proceeds to support APT and PBS public television stations nationwide. 

Leading the trio of original Bob Ross paintings in the first sale is Winter’s Peace, painted in 1993 and estimated at $30,000 – 50,000. Created using Ross’s signature Wet-on-Wet Technique,  this piece was painted entirely on-air, with no editing from start to finish – during the filming of Ross’s 30th Joy of Painting television series. Of particular note in this work are the vibrantly saturated colors, especially in the sky. Ross intentionally enhanced these hues when painting for television, ensuring they would appear especially vivid and appealing to viewers watching at home. 

Home in the Valley, painted in 1993, is the second of Ross’s works to be featured in the auction. Also estimated at $30,000 – 50,000, this nostalgic landscape was also painted on-air, in which Ross spent only around 26 minutes on it, and without any editing. Since its creation, the painting has remained in secure storage at the Bob Ross Company. 

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Home in the Valley, painted by Bob Ross in 1993 (Courtesy Bonhams)

Rounding out the works is Cliffside, painted in 1990 and estimated at $25,000 – 45,000. This painting was specifically created for Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting Volume 20 instructional book, where it appears as a full-color feature..  

homeLA, in partnership with the La Puente Valley Historical Society, will present  Redrawing the Rancho, an interdisciplinary performance at the Rowland Mansion in La Puente, California, on  Saturday, Nov. 8 and Sunday, Nov. 9, from  1 p.m. to 4 p.m. with art activations unfolding across the historic mansion’s grounds and interior spaces.

The program features new performance, dance, and installation work by Nao Bustamante, Eva Aguila, Rosa Rodríguez-Frazier, and Victoria Marks that confront and reinterpret the narratives surrounding the Rowland Mansion, Southern California’s oldest surviving brick structure, and the blended histories of colonization, agriculture, and industrialization that shaped it. 

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At the Rowland Mansion (Amina Cruz)

Once part of a nearly 50,000-acre land grant awarded in 1842 to John Rowland and William Workman, settlers who led a mule train from New Mexico to Alta California, the site has legacies of the Kizh nation, Spanish missions, Mexican land tenure, and American expansion. Today, the partly restored mansion sits in an industrial section of the City of Industry. 

Building on multiple histories, Redrawing the Rancho introduces counter-narratives that reclaim overlooked identities, voices, and contributions tied to the mansion’s past. The performances and installations illustrate displacement and dwelling, Indigenous land stewardship, Mexican-American identity, labor, and environmental change. Each artist works with specific spatial, material, and historical elements of the site, providing an opportunity to encounter the home and its histories through a critical lens.  The project asks how history is preserved, whose stories are told, and how artistic intervention can transform our relationship to place.

Nao Bustamante’s project expands this dialogue between ecology and history, creating an environment that welcomes birds back to the Rowland Mansion, countering the ecological losses brought by industrialization.

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The mural by Brandon Thompson in Pasadena, on the wall of Magic Cleaners. (Courtesy Adobe)

Adobe has commissioned a series of murals across Los Angeles, created by local artists and placed in areas affected by the Eaton and Palisades wildfires,  serving as living testaments to the city’s resilience.  Each piece transforms walls into symbols of hope and renewal, illustrating how art can help restore both spaces and spirits.

Priscilla Witte, the artist who created one of the murals in Santa Monica, has been deeply involved in providing relief and resources for communities impacted by the fires and has helped raise funds to support recovery efforts.
Another mural by Brandon Thompson is located in Pasadena, on the wall of  Magic Cleaners. Koko, the owner, lost his home in the California wildfires but continued serving his community by offering free laundry services to fire victims. 

The locations  and artists below: