Passages - RIP Dan Robbins

Dan Robbins? From the Toledo Blade:

Toledo-area artist who created paint-by-numbers pictures dies
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, said his son, Larry Robbins. He was 93.

A bit of Americana - sales peaked in 1955 at 20,000,000