The artist who became a pop culture icon on TV by teaching people how to paint hasn’t been taken seriously. His estate wants to change that.

Bob Ross, also known as Robert Norman Ross, was an American painter and television host renowned for his oil paintings of landscapes. "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, ...

But before Ross was a television staple in homes across the country, he was a U.S. Air Force military training instructor. And Bob Ross’ time in the military wasn’t short-lived. He enlisted at ...