The man behind the American pastime of paint-by-numbers pictures died on April 1 at the age of 93. Dan Robbins created the first pictures and helped popularize paint-by-numbers kits in the 1950s.

Dan Robbins, an artist who created the first paint-by-numbers pictures and helped turn the kits into an American sensation during the 1950s, has died. He was 93.

Getty Images. 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 ...

Dan Robbins, who created the paint-by-numbers phenomenon, has died at the age of 93. Robbins died on Monday at his home in Sylvania, Ohio, his son told the AP news agency. Robbins, who said his ...