In the 1950s, the most popular artwork to grace the walls of an American household wasn't a Pollack, a de Kooning or a Rothko. Instead, odds are it would have been a paint-by-number picture. Dan ...
A dime store hobby turned most everyone into an artist. The popular paint by numbers after some 71 years since the first kit was introduced at the 1951 New York Toy Fair is still a very popular ...
Dan Robbins, inventor of paint-by-numbers, pictured here at work on a “personal portrait” painting, circa 1954. (all images courtesy of Sarah Robbins) Though sales of paint-by-number painting kits ...