Sales were slow at first but took off after paint-by-number kits appeared at a toy show in New York in 1951. For roughly $2.50 a set, every man, as the slogan went, could be a Rembrandt.

Abstract sets didn’t perform well, ... Chriss Swaney at Antique Trader reports that sales of traditional paint-by-number kits are up, and the idea has found a niche in art therapy work.

Elle Cree Photo by Sarah Slusarick.. Not that Austen predicted any sort of boost in popularity for paint-by-number kits when she founded the company. In fact, when she initially launched Elle ...

WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) - Dan Robbins, who tried to make "every man a Rembrandt" with his invention of paint-by-number kits in the 1950s, a phenomenon that delighted hobbyists and rankled ...

Mr. Klein, who had been a chemist at General Motors and was no fan of abstract art, was horrified by the Cubist painting. But he liked the number concept and asked Mr. Robbins to paint something ...

Dan Robbins, the artist behind the paint-by-numbers craze that swept America, has died in Sylvania, Ohio, at the age of 93, his son told the AP news agency. He was working at a paint products firm ...