LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three paintings from famously chill public television legend sold Tuesday for more than $600,000 at auction. The paintings were the first of 30 Ross works being sold to benefit public TV stations hurt by cuts in federal funding.

At the live auction at Bonhams in Los Angeles, a serene, snow vista called “Winter's Peace” that Ross painted entirely during a 1993 episode of went for $318,000 to a bidder on the phone.

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