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Dan Robbins proposed first paint-by-number kit

paint by number be an abstract painting rendered in the cubist style pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. It later proved that consumers attracted to the paint by number concept disdained abstract compositions, preferring the narrative realism of Fishermen, Mt. Matterhorn, Latin Figures, and The Bullfighter.
Sales of paint by number kits took off on the West Coast in 1951. In this San Francisco scene, one clerk replenishes sales stock, while another demonstrates the paint by number technique for a crowd of curious onlookers.
Branching out to markets in Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, and Norway in the early 1950s, Palmer Paint tailored paint by number subjects to national tastes. This pamphlet merchandising Craft Master paint by number kits in England, for example, features Shakespeare's birthplace and Ann Hathaway's cottage. Parisian subjects popular in the American market sold well to French-speaking consumers, and are paint by number pictured in this pamphlet that emphasizes paint by number 's "valeur ?ducative" (educational value).