Kicker: Pricey happy trees

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: The beloved artist Bob Ross has been gone for nearly thirty years now. But interest in his work isn’t gone.

ROSS: Hi, I'm Bob Ross, and for the next 13 weeks, I'll be your host as we experience the joy of painting.

On that first episode released in 1986, Bob Ross created a painting titled “A Walk in the Woods.”

And Mary, we all have a shot to own that very painting! It’s up for sale at the Modern Artifact gallery in Minneapolis.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: How much?

BROWN: Well, hold on to your hat. Almost 10 million dollars!

ROSS: Now, let's play a little bit here. Let's have a happy little tree right in here.

I did the math. There’re five trees in the picture, so that comes to one million, nine hundred and seventy dollars per happy tree.

REICHARD: Think I’ll paint my own trees then.

BROWN: Yeah, that’s probably what Bob Ross would’ve preferred.

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