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

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

Works from the Boy Scouts of America's art collection, including some paintings by Norman Rockwell, will go up for auction to help compensate tens of thousands of people, mainly men, who were sexually abused while in scouting.

For more than 50 years, the artist Norman Rockwell helped shape the reputation ... In all, some $2.6 billion is being distributed by the Boy Scouts — not just from the organization's art collection but through land sales of scout camps and insurance.

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.

The first batch of artwork from the Boy Scouts of America's collection raised over $3.7 million at auction Friday to help pay the compensation owed to those who were sexually abused while in scouting.