TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An artist who created the first paint-by-numbers pictures and helped turn the kits into an American sensation during the 1950s has died.
Dan Robbins, whose works were dismissed by some critics but later celebrated by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, died Monday in Sylvania, Ohio, said his son, Larry Robbins. He was 93.
He had been in good health until a series of falls in recent months, his son said.
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