Three of Bob Ross’ paintings have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars to help cover public broadcasting costs after the Trump administration cut funding.

According to Bonhams auction house , an unframed 24-by-18-inch painting titled "Cliffside" sold for $114,800. Two others — "Home in the Valley" and "Winter’s Peace" — sold for $229,100 and $318,000, respectively. The buyers’ names were not disclosed.

A total of 30 Ross paintings are scheduled to go up for auction, with proceeds pledged to local stations that air programming distributed by American Public Television.

Ross became a public-television icon in the 1980s and 1990s as host of The Joy of Painting, a half-hour instructional program on PBS. He never charged the network for the show and didn’t earn money directly from it,

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