The History Of Paint By Numbers

The History Of Paint By Numbers

If you think the troubles of the early years were comprised of resistance to the concept of such paintings as “art”, let me hip you to some facts.
First, the matter of paint-by-numbers paintings being art — or, rather, not being art — wasn’t really an issue in the 50′s. Recreation specialists & home economists had began to speak of hobbies as more than a way to beat the unemployed Depression-era-nothing-to-do-blues, more than a way to improve moral, but as “the fifth freedom,” along with freedom of speech and worship and freedom from want and fear. The prevailing wisdom of the postwar period was that creative hobbies enhanced life and made it worth living, prompting popular celebrities like Frank Sinatra & Dinah Shore to paint as a pastime. With “Sunday painters” like President Eisenhower and Winston Churchill, even the military had adopted this mindset, setting up hobby craft shops the Pacific Theater and opening the first hobby craft shop at the Alameda Naval Air Station in California — which is why Picture Craft was selling paint-by-numbers kits via mail order to the military.
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