From 2001: Artwork by the numbers

Critics sniffed, however paint by numbers was a preferred fad within the Fifties. To mark the interest’s fiftieth anniversary, the works of newbie, number-aided artists had been honored with an exhibition – essentially the most complete ever – on the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Museum of American Historical past. Invoice Geist meets the inventor of paint-by-numbers, Dan Robbins, and curator William “Larry” Chook, in addition to aficionado Trey Speegle, who reveals off his private assortment of tons of of paint-by-numbers canvases. Initially broadcast on April 27, 2001.