1, an impressionist still life painted with tempera colors on cardboard. Robbins’ first prototype was Abstract No. has to market the sets themselves to get rid of the stock, leaving an opening to go forward with Robbins’ ideas. As the story goes, Klein agrees, starts production, but Picture Craft doesn’t produce the money for the goods and Palmer Paint Co. had been selling the kits to the military through mail order but wanted Palmer Paint to create both a greater quantity of the sets and a broader national market for them. Rumors suggest that Klein was approached by two employees of the Picture Craft Company of Decatur, Illinois, a company already producing similar art sets consisting of a rolled canvas and glass jars containing paint, though they were “mystery” pictures, where the painter only discovered what they were painting only by applying the appointed colors. Klein resists at first, but eventually, he gives the idea a try. Robbins, inspired by childhood memories of coloring & painting, as well as the story of how Michelangelo assigned pre-numbered sections of his famous ceiling to his students to paint, pitches the idea for paintings created by applying paint to color-coded canvases to his boss. The story begins in 1949 when Dan Robbins was working as a package designer for Max Klein at Palmer Paint Company in Detroit, Michigan. But I’m not that short-winded nor was the story so neat and tidy as to stay within the lines. Some might say, “And the rest is history”. The Palmer Paint Company (Detroit, Michigan) introduced the first paint-by-number kits at the New York Toy Show in 1951, creating Craft Master as its premium line of PBN.
Maybe it’s just ‘cuz we love our paint by number paintings but maybe it’s because we know things that you mockers don’t. “This,” they say, “is not art.” It’s kitsch at its worst, and at its best, it’s a hobby. Many mock paint by number paintings, saying it’s-not-art-it’s-conformism.
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