“Fifty Years of the Boy Scouts: 1910-1960” by Norman Rockwell on the cover of “Boys’ Life,” February 1960.

First hired by the Boy Scouts of America to create a series of pen and ink drawings for “The Boy Scout’s Hike Book,” Norman Rockwell was appointed art editor of “Boys’ Life” magazine at the age of nineteen. At the age of twenty-two in 1916, Rockwell began his tenure at “The Saturday Evening Post,” and although he resigned his salaried position at “Boys’ Life,” he continued to include images of Scouts on Post covers and in the monthly magazine of the American Red Cross. A few years later, in 1925, Rockwell resumed work with the Boy Scouts of America, creating the first of fifty-one annual illustrations for Brown and Bigelow’s highly successful Boy Scout calendar.

[Source: Norman Rockwell Museum at www.nrm.org/2018/04/norman-rockwell-boy-scouts-america/]

 

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