Critics were aghast, but hobbyists couldn't get enough of it: In the mid-1950s, paint-by-numbers kits were all the rage. Dan Robbins, the artist who helped invent those kits, died at a hospice on ...

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When Amanda and Brian Farnum started Wehgo, their paint-by-numbers business, out of their Midlothian, Va., home four years ago, they never imagined the situation they faced this spring. With most ...

Explore the Paint by Numbers craze from its beginnings to its current resurgence. Explore the 1950's craze from its beginnings as a post-World War II hobby to its current resurgence as a ...

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.

The paint-by-number kit had largely disappeared from the shelves by 1960, a victim of competitive market saturation and new fads, but millions of treasured works survive in attics and basements.

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.

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Largest painting by numbers attempt today . A team of 1300 people will try to paint ‘Colours of Pakistan’ theme from 8 am to 5 pm on Friday.

Paint-by-numbers started out decades ago as a product; now it is heading back in that direction. I just put it through my own filter. • Art with a capital A has very little to do with the ...