Bob Ross Painting is Upside of Couple’s Downsizing

A painting bought on a whim in 1980 for $60 from a “peculiar artist” at a fair in Anchorage has turned out to be $10,000 windfall for a Minnesota couple. Larry Walton purchased the framed painting of the northern lights in a winter night sky because it reminded him of his bush pilot days in Alaska. Eighteen years after the purchase, Larry and his wife Denise were moving into a new house near the Twin Cities in Minnesota. The black painting didn’t match the new decor, so for 21 years the painting hung in the garage, exposed only to artificial light.