kittens and horses. By 1954, the company had sold more than 12 million of the kits, according to a 2001 exhibition on the paint-by-number phenomenon by the Smithsonian National Museum of American ...

Horses would be a runaway ... 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 US$2.50 (S$3.39) a set, every man, as the ...

Dan Robbins, an artist who created the first paint-by-numbers pictures and helped turn ... and then he branched out to horses, puppies and kittens. "I did the first 30 or 35 subjects myself ...