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 collection of more than 300 works has an estimated value of approximately $60 million,

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

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.

Victims of sex abuse are watching an art auction in Dallas, hoping the images of one of America's great illustrators brings them some financial relief for the pain they suffered as Boy Scouts.

More than $3.7 million was raised Friday in the first of several auctions to sell the Boy Scouts of America art collection, which had been housed at Medici Museum of Art in Howland from 2020 until earlier this year.

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.