This section contains an index to articles about anything having to do with paint-by-numbers. We at le Salon will be adding much more material in the future. The opinions expreesed in each article are those of the author of the article. If you have an item you would like to contribute, please feel free to contact the curator at: www.paintbynumberz.com. Another Brush With Fame Fifty Years After Paint-By-Numbers Kits Emerged, Nostalgia Over the Fad is Coloring Pop Culture By The Numbers Dan Robbins Helped Generations of Americans Put a Piece of His and Their Creativity on the Living Room Wall Canvas To Canvas-mounted Panels (A Brief History) Designer of Paint-By-Numbers Kits Obituary of Richard C. Hess Don Baum: Domus. The introductory essay by Sue Taylor from the catalog of the exhibit organized by Rene Paul Barilleaux, Curator of Exhibitions of the Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin. The exhibit ran from September 3 - November 13, 1988 at the Madison Art Center, January 17 - March 10, 1989 at the State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, IL, March 26 - May 20, 1989 at the Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL and January 12 - March 4, 1990 at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. How "Le Salon de Paint-By-Numbers" Began Hyphenated Culture: Painting by Numbers in the New Age of Leisure. An excerpt from the book As seen on TV: the visual culture of everyday life in the 1950s by Karal Ann Marling. Is There A Treasure In Your Attic? Making It Big In The Numbers Racket! An Interview with "Paint-By-Numbers" Guru Dan Robbins OUTRÉ Magazine...The World of Ultra Media, Issue #17, Article and interview by JOHN ROSSI Masterpiece Theatre To a Chicago Designer, Home is a Mini Museum of Paint by Numbers Art Mrs. Murphy's Rules of Paint-By-Number Etiquette PAINT-BY-NUMBER Brush up on the basics of this collecting craze. By Larry Rubin, WARMAN'S TODAY'S COLLECTOR, December, 1999, Krause Publications Paint By Number Transcript of a March 5, 1999 interview on ABC's Good Morning America Picture Perfect Psychologist Larry Rubin finds paint-by-numbers artwork food for his mental health. By Larry Edwards, COLLECTIBLES Magazine, Winter, 1999 They're Not Rembrandts, But They Are Collectible Trivia THE "Paint by Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950s" ARCHIVE THE ADAM GRANT ARCHIVE THE DAN ROBBINS ARCHIVE

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