Boy Scouts sell off famed Norman Rockwell paintings and earn $3.7m to compensate sex abuse victims - The Boy Scouts filed for bankruptcy in 2020 and auctioning off the art is a bid to survive the barr

Boy Scouts of America is aiming to compensate hundreds of former scouts who were sexually abused by selling its artwork collection, including historic paintings from Norman Rockwell. The

Over the span of six decades, the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America commissioned dozens of pieces from the artist Norman Rockwell. This Friday, four of his paintings will be auctioned by Dallas’ Heritage Auctions to raise money for the Boy Scouts’ settlement fund, which is tasked with compensating survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

Five Norman Rockwell works of art go up for auction Friday with the proceeds going to compensate thousands of survivors of childhood sexual abuse.